• Journal of anesthesia · Jun 2021

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    Respiratory characteristics and related intraoperative ventilatory management for patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

    • Hiroko Aoyama and Kanji Uchida.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan.
    • J Anesth. 2021 Jun 1; 35 (3): 356-360.

    AbstractA substantial proportion of patients with coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) develop severe respiratory failure. Although the exact pathophysiology of severe COVID-19 pneumonia remains unknown and the characteristics of these patients are heterogeneous, the acute respiratory failure often fulfills criteria for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and the clinical characteristics are also consistent with what is previously known about ARDS. Cohort studies also report distinctively high association between perioperative COVID-19 and postoperative mortality. In this special article, we review several publications on the pathophysiology of COVID-19, and discuss intraoperative ventilatory management for patients with COVID-19 based on the respiratory characteristics of COVID-19 pneumonia in light of the ongoing controversy of clinical phenotypes.

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