Intraoperative ventilation: incidence and risk factors for receiving large tidal volumes during general anesthesia
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>There is a growing concern of the potential injurious role of ventilatory over-distention in patients without lung injury. No formal guidelines exist for intraoperative ventilation settings, but the use of tidal volumes (V<sub>...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-11-01
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Series: | BMC Anesthesiology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2253/11/22 |