Background To date, 750 000 patients with COVID-19 worldwide have required mechanical
ventilation and thus are at high risk of acute brain dysfunction (coma and delirium). We …

Background: Each year, millions of patients worldwide have a perioperative myocardial
infarction (MI) after noncardiac surgery. Objective: To examine the characteristics and short-term …

BACKGROUND: Among adults undergoing contemporary noncardiac surgery, little is
known about the frequency and timing of death and the associations between perioperative …

Background The effects of individualised perioperative lung-protective ventilation (based on
the open-lung approach [OLA]) on postoperative complications is unknown. We aimed to …

Background Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS) is a mostly asymptomatic
condition that is strongly associated with 30-day mortality; however, it remains mostly …

Objective Thoracic surgical procedures are associated with an increased risk of postoperative
pulmonary complications (PPCs), which seem to be related directly to intraoperative …

BACKGROUND: Ischemia–reperfusion lung injury is doubly important in thoracic surgery
because of the associated ventilation damage to 1 lung. In this study we evaluated the …

Background The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence, characteristics, impact,
and risk factors associated with persistent incisional pain. The hypothesis was that patient …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the
ventilatory mode used during one-lung ventilation (OLV) and intraoperative and early …

Purpose The glycocalyx is a glycoprotein-polysaccaride layer covering the endothelium
luminal surface, and plays a key regulatory role in several endothelial functions. Lung ischemia …