Case Scenario: Management of Postesophagectomy Respiratory Failure with Noninvasive Ventilation.

The article describes a case of management of postesophagectomy respiratory failure in a 63-year-old man who underwent transthoracic esophagectomy for adenocarcinoma with noninvasive ventilation. His pulmonary function test revealed a forced expiratory volume of 3 liters per second and a forced vital capacity of 3.43 liters as the patient was a former smoker but stopped 5 years before surgery. Blood gas values for the main stages of clinical course in the end of first postoperative day and before paravertebral block second postoperative day.