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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 22, 659-664, Copyright © 1975 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Physiological Changes Associated with Unilateral Pulmonary Ventilation during Operations on the Lung

ROBERT BACHAND 1, JACQUES AUDET 1, ROGER MELOCHE 1, and ROSARIO DENIS 1

1 Department of Anaesthesia, University of Montreal Medical School and Department of Anaesthesia, Notre-Dame Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

No important changes in the respiratory parameters were observed during onelung anaesthesia. However, this kind of thoracic intervention can be accompanied by a dramatic fall in arterial oxygen tension.

Methods to avoid tissue hypoxia have been described. In our series no complications whatever occurred in the operative and post-operative periods which could be related to the oxygenation of the patient.






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