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Combined positive end-expiratory pressure and low tidal volume ventilation strategies may reduce postoperative pulmonary complications by 70%, whereas varying either parameter alone showed no effect.
This editorial highlights the ongoing uncertainty regarding optimal intraoperative mechanical ventilation strategies and calls for improved, coordinated multicenter trial designs to address this gap.
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Vail et al. (2022) conducted an editorial in Patients undergoing surgery requiring intraoperative mechanical ventilation. Combined low tidal volume and PEEP ventilation strategies vs. Conventional ventilation or single-parameter interventions was evaluated on Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs). Combined positive end-expiratory pressure and low tidal volume ventilation strategies may reduce postoperative pulmonary complications by 70%, whereas varying either parameter alone showed no effect.
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