Postoperative Pulmonary Complications and Care
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Emergency Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3862
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pulmonary physiology; acute respiratory distress syndrome; mechanical ventilation; ventilation during anesthesia; ventilation-induced lung injury; lung imaging; sepsis; antibiotic therapy; microdialysis; obesity
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Dear Colleagues,
More than 230 million surgical procedures are undertaken worldwide each year and postoperative complications after surgery are an important cause of death. General anesthesia usually requires mechanical ventilation, which imposes mechanical stress to the lungs and may have injurious effects to lung endo- and epithelium, and may aggravate pulmonary and systemic inflammatory responses to surgery. Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) have a strong impact on morbidity and mortality of surgical patients and mechanical ventilation strategy may influence the occurrence of PPCs. In recent years, experimental and clinical research has addressed the issue of pathogenesis of PPC and its prevention in the perioperative setting. This is especially true for certain groups of patients such as morbidly obese patients, patients undergoing large abdominal procedures, require single lung ventilation or cardiac surgery.
This special issue welcomes all experimental and clinical manuscripts which aim to extend our knowledge of pathophysiology and care of PPCs.
Prof. Dr. Hermann Wrigge
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mechanical ventilation
- ventilation-induced lung injury
- pneumonia
- atelectasis
- positive end-expiratory pressure
- one lung ventilation
- driving pressure
- end-expiratory lung volume
- respiration
- anesthesia
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