Intraoperative Mechanical Ventilation and Postoperative Pulmonary Complications after Cardiac Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compared with historic ventilation strategies, modern lung-protective ventilation includes lower tidal volumes (VT), lower driving pressures, and application of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). The contributions of each component to an overall intraoperative protective ventilation strategy aimed at reducing postoperative pulmonary complications have neither been adequately resolved, nor comprehensively evaluated within an adult cardiac surgical population. The authors hypothesized that a bundled intraoperative protective ventilation strategy was independently associated with decreased odds of pulmonary complications after cardiac surgery.

Methods

In this observational cohort study, the authors reviewed nonemergent cardiac surgical procedures using cardiopu

SUBMITTER: Mathis MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6800803 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature