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Fig. 2.1 Postoperative patient triage. Abbreviations: PACU postanesthesia care unit, HDU high dependency unit, ICU intensive care unit A clinician’s judgment on postoperative triage is largely based on predicting the…

Fig. 6.1 (a, b) A traditional PACU square open-ward design, (c) the PACU bed-spaces and [white arrows] the standard bright fluorescent ceiling lights Fig. 6.2 The stored PACU supplies in…

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…