Pulmonary function in the immediate postoperative period: Observations of vital capacity, timed vital capacity, and maximum expiratory flow rates in two groups of thoracotomy patients and a group of nonthoractomy patients for seven postoperative days.
D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung; D012119:Respiration / Q000502:physiology*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000150:complications*; D013908:Thoracotomy; D013990:Tidal Volume; D014797:Vital Capacity
RESPIRATION/physiology; SURGERY, OPERATIVE/complications