Anesthesia for tracheal and endobronchial interventions.

Tracheal and endobronchial interventions constitute a wide variety of procedures offering unique challenges in perioperative airway management and ventilatory support. Elective or emergent anesthetic management is individualized according to underlying airway pathology, coexisting disease, and patient age. This review explores recent literature and reports on relevant advances in anesthetic care.

Prone position improves lung mechanical behavior and enhances gas exchange efficiency in mechanically ventilated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.

Unlabelled: Pronation might favorably affect respiratory system (rs) mechanics and function in volume-controlled, mode-ventilated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. We studied 10 COPD patients, initially positioned supine (baseline supine [supine(BAS)]) and then randomly and consecutively changed to protocol supine (supine(PROT)), semirecumbent, and prone positions. Rs mechanics and inspiratory work (W(I)) were assessed at baseline (0.

Acute postoperative pulmonary thromboembolism as a result of intravascular migration of a pigtail ureteral stent.

The symptomatic obstruction of a pulmonary arterial branch secondary to the intravascular migration of a pigtail ureteral stent is reported. This iatrogenic complication may cause dyspnea, chest pain, or both after uneventful urologic procedures involving ureteral stents.