Why "Post-Anaesthetic" Pulmonary Complications?

Postoperative pulmonary complications using dry and humidified anaesthetic gases.

A controlled double-blind study was undertaken to ascertain whether hnmidification of the anaesthetic gas altered the pulmonary complication rate as compared with dry gas, when administered in a non-rebreathing system to adult patients undergoing abdominal and/or transthoracic operations. Eighty-four patients, anaesthetized on an average for 5 hours, were studied. Sequential analysis showed tha...

Anaesthetic complications of acromegaly.

The anaesthetic risks of acromegaly include difficulties in airway management, hypertension, and cardiac, gastrointestinal and renal problems. To estimate the incidence of major complications in this rare group of patients, we reviewed 28 patients with acromegaly who had pituitary tumour excision over a 10-yr period. Each patient was matched for age, weight and sex to a non-acromegalic patient ...

Post-anaesthetic pulmonary oedema following upper airway obstruction.

Twelve cases of post-anaesthetic pulmonary oedema (PO) secondary to upper airway obstruction (UAO) are reported. All were adult male patients undergoing uneventful elective surgical procedure under general anaesthesia. Post-anaesthetic laryngospasm was the single most important factor for the upper airway obstruction (UAO) in 5 (41.6%) patients. PO secondary to partial UAO in drowsy patients wa...

Pulmonary Complications

were most common. We designed this study to update the pulmonary complications associated with illicit drug use in the 1990s. Design: Concurrent and retrospective chart review. Setting: Inner-city municipal hospital. Patients: All illicit drug users with pulmonary compli¬ cations seen by the pulmonary consult service were enrolled in the study. There were 105 hospital admis¬ sions of 97 patient...

Pulmonary Function Test in Pre Anaesthetic Evaluation