Anesthetic management for thoracoscopic partial lobectomy in a patient with one lung

Suzuki, Y.; Katori, K.; Mayama, T.; Shiratake, T.; Hamada, T.; Higa, K.

Masui. Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology 51(8): 921-923

2002


ISSN/ISBN: 0021-4892
PMID: 12229149
Document Number: 543434
A 58-year-old man whose right lung had been removed due to lung cancer underwent thoracoscopic partial lobectomy of the left lung. Anesthesia was maintained with intravenous propofol and thoracic epidural block. During the surgery, respirations were controlled by high frequency jet ventilation. There was no intraoperative hypoxia. The postoperative course was uneventful.

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