Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome: an intriguing perioperative hypoxemia case report
Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is a rare condition of positional hypoxemia and dyspnea. The following is a case of hypoxemia for no obvious reason in the perioperative scenario. A 70-year-old male patient was submitted to a radical prostatectomy. On several occasions after anesthetic induction...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0104001421002384 |