%0 Journal Article %T Anesthesia for robotic thoracic surgery %A Henning Pauli %A James Park %A Mostafa Eladawy %J Archive of "Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery". %D 2019 %R 10.21037/acs.2018.12.06 %X Robotically assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) to date is performed as a small proportion of thoracic surgical procedures and only at a few centres, but is rapidly gaining more widespread interest. In this article, we present our anesthetic perspective of planning and performing RATS and highlight specific points to consider when managing these patients %K Thoracic anesthesia %K robotic surgery %K thoracic surgery %K human factors %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6462555/