Atelectasis during general anaesthesia for surgery: should we treat atelectasis or the patient?

Marcelo Gama de Abreu; Marcus J Schultz; Paolo Pelosi

doi:10.1016/j.bja.2020.03.005

Atelectasis during general anaesthesia for surgery: should we treat atelectasis or the patient?

Br J Anaesth. 2020 Jun;124(6):662-664. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.03.005. Epub 2020 Apr 6.

Authors

Marcelo Gama de Abreu¹, Marcus J Schultz², Paolo Pelosi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Pulmonary Engineering Group, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: mgabreu@ukdd.de.
² Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anaesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; San Martino Policlinico Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neurosciences, Genoa, Italy.

PMID: 32273041
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.03.005

No abstract available

Keywords: age; atelectasis; computed tomography; general anaesthesia; obesity; positive end-expiratory pressure; postoperative pulmonary complications.

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MeSH terms

Anesthesia, General
Humans
Obesity
Pulmonary Atelectasis*
Tomography