Abstract
Advances in monitoring, equipment, pharmacologic agents, and perioperative pain management over the past 10 yr have provided the anesthesiologist with new clinical tools, allowing fine adjustment of care to critically ill patients undergoing surgery. The postoperative survival and well being of the patient undergoing lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) continues to improve owing to perioperative clinical advances. Continuous monitoring of oxygen saturation and end-tidal carbon dioxide allow continual adjustment of intraoperative ventilation. Short-acting anesthetic agents have improved the possibility of early extubation. Intra- and postoperative pain control can be managed on an individual basis in order to optimize ventilation. These changes in clinical management have prevented complications and improved outcome in this critically ill population.
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Delphin, E.S. (2002). Anesthetic Management of the Patient Undergoing Lung Volume Reduction Surgery. In: Argenziano, M., Ginsburg, M.E. (eds) Lung Volume Reduction Surgery. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-121-3_10
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