ics and airway pressures during differential lung ventilation (ILV)with emphasis on weaning from 1LV. Intensive Care Med 1989; 15:458-63 8. Cinnella G, Dambrosio M, Brienza N, Ranieri M: Reexpansion pulmonary edema with acute hypovolemia. Intensive Care Med 1998 24: 11 17 9. Roupie E, Dambrosio M, Servillo G, Mentec H, El Atrous S, Beydon L, Brun-Buisson C, Lemaire F, Brochard L: Titration of t...

A twenty-four year old male patient was scheduled for varicose vein stripping of left lower limb under general anesthesia. Pre-anesthetic evaluation was insignificant. General anesthesia was induced with propofol (2.5 mg.kg -1 ) and fentanyl (2 mcg.kg -1 ). After achieving adequate plane of anesthesia, a size four PLMA mounted on a standard introducer (which comes along with the PLMA) was inser...

Capnography is the monitoring of the partial pressure of alveolar carbon dioxide (CO2) in the respiratory gases. It is a useful noninvasive clinical tool for assessing efficiency and optimizing mechanical ventilation.1 The use of capnography for monitoring surgical patients during anesthesia and in the emergency department to confirm artificial airway placement is well-established and recommend...

not flow in blocks). For example, if malfunction of the inspiratory valve results in decreased resistance, it is conceivable that more than half of the expiratory gases might enter the inspiratory limb. This, in conjunction with the gas mixing between carbon dioxide–containing expiratory gases and carbon dioxide–free fresh gases may cause the final portion of the inspiratory tidal volume to con...