10.2 Basic Hemodynamic Monitoring Blood pressure is a variable influenced by both cardiac output (CO) and vascular tone; hence, blood pressure can remain within the normal range in the presence…
Authors (publication year) Procedure Number of patients Study design Timing Acute lung injury fluid volume No acute lung injury fluid volume P value Zeldin et al. (1984) [4] Pneumonectomy 25…
Fig. 18.1 Oxygen cascade Considerable evidence suggests that exercise training programs may alleviate symptoms and improve long-term outcome in various diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, arterial…
Fig. 1.1 CT scan (left panel) and vertical distributions of ventilation (open squares) and perfusion (closed circles) in an anesthetized subject (right lower panel). Ventilation and perfusion distributions in a…
Age ≥ 75 Male Smoking history FEV1 < 70 % Induction therapy Pathologic stages III–IV Duration of operation > 3 h COPD Histopathologic type (squamous cell carcinoma) FEV 1 forced…
Fig. 13.1 The main components of ECMO are displayed in Fig. 13.1. A venoarterial ECMO is shown in Fig. 13.1. The cannulation site of ECMO is central, via the internal…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Mert Şentürk and Mukadder Orhan Sungur (eds.)Postoperative Care in Thoracic Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-19908-5_20 20. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Postoperative Period Gary H. Mills1 (1) Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and University of Sheffield, Sheffield,…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Mert Şentürk and Mukadder Orhan Sungur (eds.)Postoperative Care in Thoracic Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-19908-5_17 17. Pain Management Following Thoracic Surgery Mukadder Orhan Sungur1 and Mert Şentürk1 (1) Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Istanbul University,…
Drug Mode of action Half-life Onset of action Duration of action Aspirin Irreversible inhibition of the enzyme COX-1 15–20 min Few minutes Platelet lifespana Clopidogrel Irreversible binding to the ADP…
Increased mortality Increased pulmonary complications Hemodynamic deterioration and instability Induction or exacerbation of heart failure Increased mean lengths of intensive care unit and hospital stay Increased mean hospital charges 15.2…
