Anesthesia in the Surgical Treatment of Bronchiectasis

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THE anesthesia and operating-room care of patients who are to be treated surgically for bronchiectasis need to be planned and carried out in a simple but logical manner if anesthesia mortality and postoperative complications are to be held to a minimum.Since the advent of penicillin nebulization in the preoperative preparation of these patients, the anesthetic procedures have been simplified considerably. Most patients now come to surgery with comparatively "dry lungs" as compared with those who did not receive, the benefit of penicillin therapy by inhalation. It is my belief that bronchoscopy should not be performed immediately before operation, since . . .

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