Book excerpt: * Practical guide to the fundamentals and clinical applications of cardiothoracic anesthesiology * Clearly organized into preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative sections covering diagnostics, anesthetic management, and physiologic and pharmacologic principles* Encompasses a broad range of thoracic topics including medastinal, esophageal, tracheal, lung, airway, aortic and pericardial surgeries.