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PubMed1977

Evaluation of the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications.

Ten of 40 patients who underwent major thoracic or abdominal operations developed postoperative pulmonary complications, consisting of six massive atelectasis, three pneumonias and one edema. They were mostly thoracotomy cases and cigarette smokers. Many of these complications would have been prevented, if reliable pulmonary function tests are available to predict preoperatively such occurrence. Flow-volume curve tracing and closing volume measurement were evaluated in this respect. Both flow at the point of functional residual capacity on flow-volume curve, and the closing capacity subtracted from functional residual capacity were found to be well correlated with the occurrence of postoperative complications and can be used to evaluate the risk of pulmonary complications developing in postoperative period.

Abdomen↗
PubMed1975

[Postoperative pulmonary complications following abdominal surgery. Study on the preventive use of a bronchosecretolytic agent associated with an antibiotic].

The factors leading to post-operative respiratory complications following abdominal surgery are examined. Data relating to a clinical study of laparotomised patients receiving a course of Bisolvomycin in the immediate postoperative period are presented. This treatment led to a marked fall in the incidence of complications, even in a group of subjects with chronic bronchopneumopathy. Its usefulness as systematic management for subjects about to undergo abdominal surgery is urged.

Abdomen↗
PubMed1977

[Postoperative pulmonary complications following surgery for carcinoma of the esophagus].

Pulmonary complications frequently occur during the postoperative period following surgery for neoplasms of the oesophagus. The aetiology varies according to the time of their onset but the clinical signs and treatment are essentially the same. The problems encountered and related either to anaesthesia, to the surgical approach to the position of the patient. It is after the third day that complication develop related at one and the same to the past history, classical in such patients, (tobacco, chronic bronchitis, alcoholism) and the ectopic position of an abdominal viscus.

Esophageal Neoplasms↗
PubMed1977

An evaluation of preoperative methods of preventing postoperative pulmonary complications.

The effectiveness of three current regimes of preoperative respiratory care in reducing postoperative respiratory complications following herniorrhaphy was studied prospectively. No smoking for five days plus intensive physiotherapy, five days no smoking, and routine hospital admission two days preoperatively were the regimes. Clinical, bacteriological, chest X-ray, blood gas and respiratory function test data were the criteria for assessment. The same surgical and anaesthetic team performed each operation. No statistical difference between the groups for pulmonary complications was noted. A significant correlation was found between the preoperative vital capacity and arterial pO2; also between the preoperative forced expiratory volume in one second-vital capacity ratio with the postoperative arterial pO2.

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PubMed1979

Postoperative pulmonary complications in upper abdominal surgery. A randomized clinical comparison between physiotherapy and blow-bottles.

Blow-bottles were compared with conventional postoperative pulmonary physiotherapy in a randomized trial of 98 patients undergoing gastric or biliary tract surgery. Radiological evidence of postoperative pulmonary lesions found by "blind" evaluation of the films occurred with the same frequency in the two groups (30.6%). Blow-bottles were found preferable to physiotherapy because they are less time-consuming.

Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures↗