Main description:

This comprehensive book pulls together the essential elements needed to assess sleep apnea patients for the transoral robotic surgical approach and how to optimize the surgery. Detailed information on patient selection, pre-operative work up, anesthesiological pre and post-operative management, surgery, complication prevention and management is provided along with background on sleep medicine and sleep surgery. Authored for ENT surgeons, head and neck specialists and neurologists, pneumonologists, sleep doctors as well for anesthesiologists, chapters offer solutions pulled from experts in the field of sleep surgery and information relevant to geographic areas worldwide.

Contents:

Introduction
Part I: Patient Work-Up
2 Tongue Pathophysiology in OSAS Patients: A Surgically Oriented Perspective
3 History-Taking and Clinical Examination
4 Sleep Studies
5 Imaging
6 Drug Induced Sedation Endoscopy (DISE)
7 Patient Selection
Part II: Surgery
8 Transoral Robotic Surgery as Single Level Surgery for Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

9 TORS in a Multilevel Procedure
10 Alternative Procedures
11 Robotic Setting

12 Surgical Anatomy in Trans-oral Robotic Procedure: Basic Fundamentals
13 Trans Oral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: An Anesthetist's Point of View
14 Technique: How We do It
Part III: Post-Operative Concerns
15 Post-Operative Management of Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
16 Expected Outcomes
17 Complication Management
18 Short- and Long-term Dysphagia
19 Failures Management
Part IV: TORS for OSAS in Geographic Perspective: How to Run a Program in Different Countries
20 The North American Experience
21 The South American Experience
22 The European Experience

<23 The Middle East Experience
24 The Far Eastern Experience <
25 The Australian Experience

Part V: Research and Future Perspectives
26 Research and Future Perspectives