Interesting case

Had an interesting thing happen in the cardiac OR yesterday: 50 year old man, severe MR w/ P2 prolapse, scheduled for MV repair. Otherwise pretty healthy and well compensated, had albuterol on his med list but didn't carry a formal diagnosis of asthma and denied using his inhaler in years. At the end of the bypass run, cross clamp comes off, start to pace, did a little recruitment then started trying to ventilate but was getting very high airway pressures. In the surgical field, the lungs... Read more
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