BACKGROUND Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs), which are not uncommon in one-lung ventilation, are among the main causes of postoperative death after lung surgery. Intra-operative ventilation strategies can influence the incidence of PPCs. High tidal volume (V T) and increased airway pressure may lead to lung injury, while pressure-controlled ventilation and lung-protective strategies...

This case is an anesthesia challenge and management of one-lung ventilation in a patient with pulmonary embolism the ventilated lung. A 50 years old male history thromboembolism segmental subsegmental branches left artery was posted for right decortication. He developed hypoxia (sp02~82-85% ) PaC02-EtCO2 difference ~30 mm Hg on initiation one lung indicating significant shunting blood V/Q misma...

INTRODUCTION In multiple study populations large tidal volumes (8 - 12 ml/kg) have deleterious effects on lung function in multiple study populations. The accepted approach to hypoxemia during one-lung ventilation is the application of continuous positive airway pressure to the non-ventilated lung first, followed by application of positive end-expiratory pressure to the ventilated lung. To our ...

background: postoperative pulmonary dysfunction is one of the most frequent complications after cardiac surgery and it is believed to result from the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb). in this study, we investigated the effect of low tidal volume ventilation during cpb on postoperative gas exchange and lung mechanics. methods: this prospective randomized study included 100 patients undergoing...

BACKGROUND Diaphragm motion during spontaneous or mechanical respiration hinders image-guided percutaneous interventions of tumours in lung and upper abdomen. Motion-tracking methods can be applied but increase procedure complexity and procedure time. One-lung flooding (OLF) generates a suitable acoustic pathway to lung tumours and likely suppress diaphragm motion. The aim of this study was to ...

One lung ventilation (OLV) or one lung anaesthesia means separation of the two lungs and each lung functioning independently by preparation of the airway. It continues to remain as one of the challenging and skilled techniques of anesthesia practice. The need for isolating one lung from the other for different surgical procedures on the lungs, mediastinum or great vessels is well established. A...

Reexpansion pulmonary oedema (RPE) is a rare but potentially fatal complication with no clear cut guidelines for its management. When the injury to the lung is primarily one sided, conventional modes of ventilation can be ineffective and at times harmful. Selective or independent lung ventilation (ILV) is one of the therapeutic modality that can be used for the treatment of such cases. We repor...