Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
Increase in Diaphragm and Expiratory respiratory muscles thickness is not associated with postoperative pulmonary complications after thoracic surgery: a prospective ultrasound cohort study.
Vivien Berthoud, Maxime Nguyen, Jean Vinay, Justine Perrot, Pierre-Benoit Pages, Pierre-Grégoire Guinot, Bélaid Bouhemad
Published: 202510.1016/j.accpm.2025.101683
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: In thoracic surgery, all respiratory muscles have a significant increase in workload, and recruitment of these muscles may be important, especially in the presence of diaphragmatic dysfunction. Evaluating diaphragmatic and expiratory mu…
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