Background. Atelectasis is known to develop during anaesthesia and after operation atelectasis leads to impaired oxygenation. Lung recruitment manoeuvres, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) have been proposed for reduction of atelectasis but their benefits have not been shown to persist after operation. We proposed that a combination of these...

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of atelectasis on pulmonary function 6 days following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). After 6 days, 30 patients had normal chest radiographs, 38 had atelectasis, and 57 had pleural changes. In 11 patients, atelectasis only was observed in the radiograph, and in 27 it was in combination with pleural changes. The decrease in FVC and...

Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) has been widely and safely used in the treatment of sleep disorders but has not been previously utilized for therapy of pulmonary atelectasis in adults. We observed three patients with significant atelectasis which was refractory to conventional chest physiotherapy. Bronchoscopy was not a viable therapeutic option in any patient. Therapy with con...

A preschool four-year-old male patient had been admitted to the Mandaqui Hospital with a diagnosis of lobar pneumonia, pleural effusion, and right lung atelectasis. Treatment consisted of antibiotics and physiotherapy sessions, using a technique described in the literature as Insufflation Technique to Reverse Atelectasis (ITRA), which consists of a thoracic block of healthy lung tissue, leaving...

J N MOST texts on pulmonary complications, aspiration of stomach contents 1 into the lungs during general anesthesia is considered under the heading of postanesthetic pneumonia. Aspiration of infected material is said to produce atelectasis, pne-umonia, and lung abscess .. A survey of New York Lying-In Hospital records of patients that aspirated gastric contents during obstetric anesthesia reve...

1050 April 2014 We read not only with interest but also with some surprise the review on high intraoperative oxygen concentration by Hovaguimian et al.1 that appeared recently in AnestHesiology. The authors selected 9 to 11 of 21 studies and by a meta-analysis they concluded that “intraoperative high inspired oxygen fraction decreases the risk of surgical-site infection in surgical patients rec...

BACKGROUND Chest auscultation is commonly performed during respiratory physical therapy (RPT). However, the changes in breath sounds in children with atelectasis have not been previously reported. The aim of this study was to clarify the characteristics of breath sounds in children with atelectasis using acoustic measurements. METHOD The subjects of this study were 13 children with right midd...