Combined unilateral high frequency jet ventilation and contralateral intermittent positive pressure ventilation.
The anaesthetic management of a patient who required right lower lobectomy for bronchial carcinoma associated with emphysema, pneumoconiosis and a previous thoracoplasty for pulmonary tuberculosis, is described. A technique of unilateral high frequency jet ventilation plus conventional intermittent positive pressure ventilation to the contralateral lung was used.
Morgan
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Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Perks
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Conacher
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Paes
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ML
D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D006611:High-Frequency Jet Ventilation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation / Q000379:methods*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000379:methods*