Are lung-protective ventilation strategies worth the effort?
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Protective strategies for one-lung ventilation
provided the original work is properly cited. CC Hypoxemia and acute lung injury (ALI) are major concerns with one-lung ventilation (OLV) during thoracic surgery. Hypoxemia is usually the result of alveolar hypoventilation and an increasing shunt fraction, whereas ALI is caused by ventilatory stress (volutrauma, atelectrauma, and barotrauma), reexpansion pulmonary injury, and the lung surgery i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2220-1181,2220-1173
DOI: 10.1080/22201173.2013.10872890