Airway Management During Anesthesia for Lung Transplantation: Double-Lumen Tube or Endobronchial Blocker?

LUNG TRANSPLANTATION, either single or bilateral, involves recipient pneumonectomy followed by implantation and reperfusion of the donor lung. Contemporary approaches to lung transplantation require lung isolation to assist recipient pneumonectomy and donor lung implantation.1 Single-lung transplantation requires interruption of ventilation to the side of allograft transplantation, whereas bilateral lung transplantation involves sequential one-lung ventilation (OLV) when performed without mechanical circulatory support.

Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - October 9, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Manoj H. Iyer, Nicolas Kumar, Nasir Hussain, Michael Essandoh, Julia Kumar, Leonid Gorelik, Antolin S. Flores, Sujatha P. Bhandary, Amar Bhatt Tags: Special Article Source Type: research