Emergence and Postoperative Atelectasis: Comment

Postoperative pulmonary atelectasis.

The astounding number of surgical operations performed by physicians today has resulted in a greater awareness of atelectasis, a common postoperative pulmonary complication. Although easily recognized and prevented, atelectasis is frequently overlooked, resulting in serious pulmonary impairmment and occasionally surgical mortality. The word, atelectasis, is derived from the Greek, " atel-ectasi...

Sputum viscosity and postoperative pulmonary atelectasis.

The relationship between changes in the viscosity of sputum and the development of pulmonary atelectasis has been discussed.15 The fibers found in sputum which appear to be responsible for the viscosity are

Edict of postoperative fever and atelectasis.

Figure 3. Bland-Altman plot between total serum cortisol and free serum cortisol (57 patients). Limits of agreement, 2 33.966 to 2 4.596; mean difference, 2 19.281; 95% CI, 2 21.229 to 2 17.333; range, 2.495-25.825; Pitman test r , 2 0.981; P 5 0.001. diffi cult and time consuming (see the “Discussion” section in original article 1 ). Even more important is the observation that the degree of ag...

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A ventilation strategy during general anaesthesia to reduce postoperative atelectasis

BACKGROUND Atelectasis is common during and after general anaesthesia. We hypothesized that a ventilation strategy, without recruitment manoeuvres, using a combination of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and a reduced end-expiratory oxygen fraction (FETO2) before ending mask ventilation with CPAP after extubation would reduce the area of post...