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TransOral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

A Practical Guide to Surgical Approach and Patient Management

  • Pulls together the essential elements needed to assess obstructive sleep apnea patients and how to optimize the transoral robotic surgical approach

  • Provides a background on sleep medicine and sleep surgery

  • Offers broad information and easily implemented solutions for surgeons, neurologists and head and neck specialists

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introduction

    • Claudio Vicini, Filippo Montevecchi, Paul T. Hoff
    Pages 1-3
  3. Patient Work-Up

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. Tongue Pathophysiology in OSAS Patients: A Surgically Oriented Perspective

      • Filippo Montevecchi, Claudio Vicini, Matteo Costantini, Riccardo Gobbi, Elisabetta Firinu, Ottavio Piccin et al.
      Pages 7-11
    3. History-Taking and Clinical Examination

      • Claudio Vicini, Filippo Montevecchi, Paul T. Hoff, Claudia Zanotti, Tod Huntley, Yassin Bahgat
      Pages 13-20
    4. Sleep Studies

      • Brian W. Rotenberg, Marcello Bosi, Sabrina Frassineti, Venerino Poletti
      Pages 21-31
    5. Imaging

      • Andrea De Vito, Pier Carlo Frasconi, Oscar Bazzocchi, Giulia Tenti
      Pages 33-40
    6. Drug-Induced Sedation Endoscopy (DISE)

      • Aldo Campanini, Bhik Kotecha, Erica R. Thaler
      Pages 41-50
    7. Patient Selection

      • Tiffany Ann Glazer, Paul T. Hoff, Matthew E. Spector, Claudio Vicini, Filippo Montevecchi, Neil S. Tolley et al.
      Pages 51-59
  4. Surgery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
    2. TORS in a Multilevel Procedure

      • Ahmed Bahgat, Ehsan Hendawy, Kenny P. Pang, Claudio Vicini
      Pages 71-75
    3. Alternative Procedures

      • Mohamed Eesa, Ahmed Bahgat, Ehsan Hendawy
      Pages 77-82
    4. Robotic Setting

      • Mark A. D’Agostino, Gregory A. Grillone, Federico Faedi
      Pages 83-89
    5. Surgical Anatomy in Transoral Robotic Procedure: Basic Fundamentals

      • Iacopo Dallan, Lodovica Cristofani-Mencacci, Giovanni D’Agostino, Ermelinda Zeccardo, Hesham Negm
      Pages 91-107
    6. Transoral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: An Anesthetist’s Point of View

      • Ruggero Massimo Corso, Davide Cattano, Nabil Abdelhamid Shallik
      Pages 109-119
    7. Technique: How We Do It

      • Claudio Vicini, Filippo Montevecchi, J. Scott Magnuson
      Pages 121-135
  5. Post-Operative Concerns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Expected Outcomes

      • Claudio Vicini, Filippo Montevecchi, Aldo Campanini, Iacopo Dallan, Paul T. Hoff, Matthew E. Spector et al.
      Pages 143-149

About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Head and Neck Department - ENT & Oral Surgery Unit - G.B. Morgagni - L. Pierantoni Hospital, Forlì – Infermi Hospital, Faenza - ASL of Romagna, Italy

    Claudio Vicini, Filippo Montevecchi

  • Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, USA

    Paul T. Hoff

About the editors

Claudio Vicini, MD

Head & Neck Department, ASL Romagna

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Unit, Stomatology and Oral Surgery Unit, 

GB Morgagni – L Pierantoni Hospital (Forlì), 

Infermi Hospital (Faenza),

Italy



Paul Theodore Hoff, MS, MD

University of Michigan Hospital

Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA


Filippo Montevecchi, MD

Head & Neck Department, ASL Romagna

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Unit, Stomatology and Oral Surgery Unit, 

GB Morgagni – L Pierantoni Hospital (Forlì), 

Infermi Hospital (Faenza),

Italy








Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: TransOral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

  • Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Surgical Approach and Patient Management

  • Editors: Claudio Vicini, Paul T. Hoff, Filippo Montevecchi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34040-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34038-8Published: 12 September 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81662-3Published: 12 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-34040-1Published: 01 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 230

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Head and Neck Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery

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eBook USD 89.00
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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