• Hermann Wrigge and Fridolin Streibert.
• Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2021 May 1; 56 (5): 318-328.

AbstractAvoiding postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) is an important goal for anesthesiologists during general anesthesia, and ventilation strategies may play a role. It seems reasonable to apply knowledge from lessons we learned from ventilation of intensive care unit patients aiming at avoiding ventilator associated lung injury. Ventilation associated lung injuries occur frequently and are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Strategies of lung protective ventilation, like lower tidal volumes and the use of positive end-expiatory pressure (PEEP), can usually be transferred safely to perioperative ventilation, although some issues such as hemodynamic side effects must be considered. For some reasons, however, current evidence is conflicting and there is no consensus on ventilatory perioperative management to avoid PPCs so far. This paper briefly summarizes physiological backgrounds in a functional context, current evidence, and provides some recommendations at "expert" opinion level for perioperative ventilation procedures.Especially in patients at risk and/or during surgery with higher surgical trauma and inflammation, we recommend limiting tidal volume to 6 - 8 ml/kg predicted body weight and the use of PEEP, which should be individualized e.g. by minimizing driving pressure. Recruitment maneuvers may be considered and should be carried out by using the ventilator.Obese patients are an increasing entity and can be challenging during anesthesia and ventilation. From a physiological point of view, these patients require much higher ventilation pressures as currently used, although recent evidence is not in favor of using moderately higher PEEP, which is matter of discussion.Thieme. All rights reserved.

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