Driving pressure: A useful tool for reducing postoperative pulmonary complications.

The operating room is a unique environment where surgery exposes patients to non-physiological changes that can compromise lung mechanics. Therefore, raising clinicians' awareness of the potential risk of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) is mandatory. Driving pressure is a useful tool for reducing lung complications in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and those undergoing elective surgery. Driving pressure has been most extensively studied in the context of single-lung ventilation during thoracic surgery. However, the awareness of association of VILI risk and patient positioning (prone, beach-chair, park-bench) and type of surgery must be raised.
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