Perioperative Lung Protection Strategies in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia. Are They Useful?

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 607-628

  Slinger, Peter ^a   Kilpatrick, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Cardiac anesthesia; Cardiac surgery; Thoracic anesthesia; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DESFLURANE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROPOFOL; SALBUTAMOL; SEVOFLURANE; SURFACTANT;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; BRONCHODILATATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GLYCOCALYX; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERINFLATION; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG RESECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; TIDAL VOLUME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VENTILATOR INDUCED LUNG INJURY;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ENVIRONMENT; GLYCOCALYX; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; ONE-LUNG VENTILATION; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84867857424     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: 22103538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2012.07.001     Document Type: Review

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