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Lung Isolation Techniques

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Lung isolation techniques are used most commonly during the thoracic, cardiovascular, and other chest cavity procedures (mediastinal, esophageal, or orthopedic). Besides facilitating One-Lung Ventilation (OLV) and facilitating surgical exposure, it protects and prevents the soiling of lung by the contra-lateral lung especially in cases of whole-lung lavage, broncho-pleural fistula, and pulmonary hemorrhage. Lung isolation techniques are also used to provide differential patterns of ventilation in unilateral reperfusion injury (e.g., after lung-transplantation or pulmonary thrombo-endarterectomy) and in unilateral lung-trauma.

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    Namrata Ranganath & Kavitha Lakshman

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Ranganath, N., Lakshman, K. (2020). Lung Isolation Techniques. In: Sood, J., Sharma, S. (eds) Clinical Thoracic Anesthesia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0746-5_10

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