Protective ventilation with high versus low positive end-expiratory pressure during one-lung ventilation for thoracic surgery (PROTHOR): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) may result in longer duration of in-hospital stay and even mortality. Both thoracic surgery and intraoperative mechanical ventilation settings add considerably to the risk of PPC. It is unclear if one-lung ventilation (OLV) for thoracic...

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Main Authors: T. Kiss, J. Wittenstein, C. Becker, K. Birr, G. Cinnella, E. Cohen, M. R. El Tahan, L. F. Falcão, C. Gregoretti, M. Granell, T. Hachenberg, M. W. Hollmann, R. Jankovic, W. Karzai, J. Krassler, T. Loop, M. J. Licker, N. Marczin, G. H. Mills, M. T. Murrell, V. Neskovic, Z. Nisnevitch-Savarese, P. Pelosi, R. Rossaint, M. J. Schultz, A. Serpa Neto, P. Severgnini, L. Szegedi, T. Vegh, G. Voyagis, J. Zhong, M. Gama de Abreu, M. Senturk, for the PROTHOR investigators, the Research Workgroup PROtective VEntilation Network (PROVEnet) of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-04-01
Series:Trials
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-019-3208-8