OBJECTIVE To evaluate the occurrence and risk of pulmonary complications in children who underwent pre-and postoperative physiotherapeutic intervention in cardiac surgeries, as well as to compare these patients to those who underwent only postoperative physiotherapeutic intervention. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was performed with 135 patients from 6 years of age and younger with con...

BACKGROUND The importance of clinical risk factors for postoperative pulmonary complications and the value of preoperative testing to stratify risk are the subject of debate. PURPOSE To systematically review the literature on preoperative pulmonary risk stratification before noncardiothoracic surgery. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE search from 1 January 1980 through 30 June 2005 and hand search of th...