Pulmonary Postoperative Complications: Is There a Place for Anesthesia?

Pulmonary postoperative complications: is there a place for anesthesia?

To the Editor: We read with a great interest the article by Canet et al. regarding pulmonary complications after surgery. The authors have evaluated the incidence of this frequent adverse event and its risk factors in more than 2,000 patients. They found that postoperative pulmonary complications occur in 5% of patients and identify several patient-related (e.g., age, low preoperative SpO2, acu...

Postoperative Pulmonary Complications

Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are a common outcome of cardiothoracic surgery. When allowed to progress, PPCs can result in serious sequelae, such as respiratory failure, pulmonary embolism, acute lung injury, or acute respiratory distress syndrome. The prevention of PPCs requires a comprehensive approach that includes assessment of preoperative risk, smoking cessation, and attent...

Postoperative Pulmonary Complications

The literature dealing with the case incidence of pulmonary complications occurring after operation reveals a wide range in the reported data. For example, Cutler and Scott' collected 41,368 operative cases, from the records of eight dinics, with an incidence of 1.12 per cent of postoperative pneumonia. Many other reported series approximate this percentage. On the other hand, in 1930, Fuller,2...

Is there still a place for thrombectomy?

Malignancy is known to be a prothrombotic condition , and some antitumor drugs may amplify the hyper-coagulable tendency. We present a female patient with cancer, who developed acute coronary syndrome (ACS) due to occlusive intracoronary thrombus without underlying atherosclerosis. A 59-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer diagnosed 2 years ago, paraneoplastic syndrome and steroid diabe...

Is there a place for animal experiments?