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(Chest. 1949;15:690-708.)
© 1949 American College of Chest Physicians

The Importance of Various Mechanical and Circulatory Postoperative Pulmonary Complications

LOUIS F. KNOEPP M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.P.1

1 The Veterans Administration Hospital, Alexandria, Louisiana.

1) Postoperative pulmonary complications may be infectious, mechanical or circulatory. A review of the most important of these entities has been undertaken, viz. atelectasis, spontaneous pneumothorax and pulmonary embolism.

2) Certain preventive measures will materially lessen the frequency of occurrence of most of the above complications.

3) The treatment of each complication is given briefly. Stress is laid on early recognition of each condition and prompt institution of therapy.

4) Several case reports are related to illustrate a few of the corollaries stressed in this treatise.






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