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BACKGROUND There may be significant difference between measurement of end-tidal carbon dioxide partial pressure (PetCO2) and arterial carbon dioxide partial pressure (PaCO2) during one-lung ventilation with low tidal volume for thoracic surgeries. Transcutaneous carbon dioxide partial pressure (PtcCO2) monitoring can be used continuously to evaluate PaCO2 in a noninvasive fashion. In this study...

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...

Ventilation needs to be individualized for the underlying • lung pathology. Ventilation is a modifiable risk factor for acute lung injury. • Protective lung ventilation is a combination of small tidal • volumes, low peak and plateau pressures, routine PEEP and permissive hypercapnea. Hypoxia during one-lung ventilation is rare and often sec• ondary to alveolar de-recruitment in the face of hypo...

INTRODUCTION In last few years, emphasis was placed in goal-directed therapy in order to optimize patient's hemodynamic status and improve their prognosis. Parameters based on the interaction between heart and lungs have been questioned in situations like low tidal volume and open chest surgery. The goal of the study was to analyze the changes that one-lung ventilation can produce over stroke v...