Key result
Spirometry remains an undervalued tool for assessing perioperative pulmonary risk and predicting postoperative complications.
Why the study?
Spirometry is easily accessible but underused by anesthesiologists, potentially due to lack of familiarity with test analysis or lack of a hospital pulmonary physiology laboratory.
Spirometry is an accessible but underutilized tool by anesthesiologists that is crucial for perioperative evaluation, predicting postoperative complications, and calculating tidal volume for thoracic surgery.
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May support greater spirometry adoption in perioperative care; leaves open confirmation via randomized trials.
Spirometry is a lung function test, whose main objective is to evaluate lung mechanics. It is a test that is currently easily accessible, but little used by anesthesiologists. One cause may be that they are not familiar with the analysis and understanding of said test or the lack of a pulmonary physiology laboratory in their hospitals. The proper analysis and understanding of this test by the general and thoracic anesthetist offers a range of possibilities both for the perioperative evaluation of the patient with pulmonary pathology or the one who will undergo thoracic surgery. Having a great impact by influencing the prognosis and management of these patients.
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Pérez et al. (2023) conducted a review in Perioperative pulmonary evaluation. Spirometry was evaluated. Spirometry is an undervalued but highly useful tool for anesthesiologists in the perioperative evaluation of patients, particularly for assessing pulmonary risk and predicting postoperative complications.
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