One lung ventilation (OLV) in children is a challenge and requires creative solutions. A case of OLV with bronchial placement of a fiberscope inspection-guided vascular embolectomy catheter in a three-year-old girl, scheduled for the resection of an intrathoracic tumor through thoracotomy is described. The availability of a broad range of vascular catheters as well as of fiberscope inspection m...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review will analyze the risk factors of acute lung injury (ALI) in patients undergoing thoracic surgery. Evidence for the occurrence of lung injury following mechanical ventilation and one-lung ventilation (OLV) and the strategies to avoid it will also be discussed. RECENT FINDINGS Post-thoracotomy ALI has become one of the leading causes of operative death. The pathoge...

The effects of two lung ventilation, one lung ventilation and alveolar lavage on right ventricular mechanics in a patient have been observed using transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE). Alveolar lavage resulted in additional stresses to those of one lung ventilation (OLV) and the point when these were noted to be resulting in right ventricular changes was used as the signal to terminate the f...

BACKGROUND Hypoxemia is common during one-lung ventilation(OLV), predominantly due to transpulmonary shunt. None of the strategies tried showed consistent results. We evaluated the effectiveness of ventilating the operated, non-dependent lung (NDL) with small tidal volumes in improving the oxygenation during OLV. METHODS 30 ASA 1 and 2 patients undergoing elective, open thoracotomy were studi...

Forty domestic pigs were used for the study. Saline solution washout was produced by bilateral lung lavage. The lavage process was repeated until adequate impairment of gas exchange (defi ned as PaO2 < 100 mmHg) 60 min following the last lavage was achieved. Subsequently, lung injury was established and each model was randomized to one of fi ve groups, with differences in the type of mechanical...

Functional separation of the lungs may be accomplished by several methods. Patient with restricted mouth opening has limited options for one-lung ventilation. We report the use of wire-guided endobronchial blockade, a new tool for achieving one-lung ventilation in a patient with restricted mouth opening requiring nasotracheal, fiberoptic intubation for esophagectomy and reconstruction with gast...