Physiological changes associated with unilateral pulmonary ventilation during operations on the lung.
No important changes in the respiratory parameters were observed during one-lung anaesthesia. However, this kind of thoracic intervention can be accompanied by a dramatic fall in arterial oxygen tension. Methods to avoid tissue hypoxia have been described. In our series no complications whatever occurred in the operative and post-operative periods which could be related to the oxygenation of the patient.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006221:Halothane; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D011656:Pulmonary Emphysema / Q000601:surgery; D012119:Respiration; D012126:Respiratory Dead Space; D013990:Tidal Volume; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical
D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D010100:Oxygen; D006221:Halothane