Fiberoptic intubation (FOI) is an effective technique for establishing airway access in patients
with both anticipated and unanticipated difficult airways. First described in the late 1960s, …

Many cases have been reported of hemodynamic and airway collapse induced by general
anesthesia in patients with an anterior mediastinal mass. We examined the literature for …

… Randal Blank and Stephen Collins contributed equally to this work. … Not until decades later
did Starling’s initial observations become expressed in mathematical format, 13 , 14 known as …

Background The use of lung-protective ventilation (LPV) strategies may minimize iatrogenic
lung injury in surgical patients. However, the identification of an ideal LPV strategy, …

Background To minimize the stress of operations, improve the patient experience, reduce
variability, and optimize resource utilization, we implemented a thoracic enhanced recovery …

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… Anesthesiology’s articles are made freely accessible to all readers, for personal use only, 6 …

Background Protective ventilation may improve outcomes after major surgery. However, in
the context of one-lung ventilation, such a strategy is incompletely defined. The authors …

Background Airway driving pressure, easily measured as plateau pressure minus PEEP, is
a surrogate for alveolar stress and strain. However, the effect of its targeted reduction …

To identify potential regulators of smooth muscle cell (SMC) differentiation, we studied the
molecular mechanisms that control the tissue-specific transcriptional expression of SM α-actin, …

BACKGROUND: The use of an intraoperative lung-protective ventilation strategy through
tidal volume (TV) size reduction and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) has been …