Pre-operative training, smoking cessation, and lung ventilation with tidal volumes of 6-8 ml/kg and low positive end-expiratory pressure probably reduce postoperative pulmonary complications.
Do pre-operative training, smoking cessation, and protective lung ventilation reduce postoperative pulmonary complications in surgical patients?
Pre-operative training, smoking cessation, and protective lung ventilation strategies are recommended to reduce the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications.
Pulmonary complications are a major cause of peri-operative morbidity and mortality, but have been researched less thoroughly than cardiac complications. It is important to try and predict which patients are at risk of peri-operative pulmonary complications and to intervene to reduce this risk. Anaesthetists are in a unique position to do this during the whole peri-operative period. Pre-operative training, smoking cessation and lung ventilation with tidal volumes of 6-8 ml.kg(-1) and low positive end-expiratory pressure probably reduce postoperative pulmonary complications.
Marseu et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Peri-operative pulmonary complications. Pre-operative training, smoking cessation, and lung ventilation was evaluated on Postoperative pulmonary complications. Pre-operative training, smoking cessation, and lung ventilation with tidal volumes of 6-8 ml/kg and low positive end-expiratory pressure probably reduce postoperative pulmonary complications.
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