ReviewAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2021
Perioperative management of patients with asthma during elective surgery: A systematic review.
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- Effectiveness of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Patients with Obesity and Asthma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Systemic Corticosteroids in the Management of Sinonasal Disease: An Evidence-Based Expert Review.International forum of allergy & rhinology · 2026Review
- Anesthetic Management of Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: A Narrative Review with an Illustrative Case in Cardiac Surgery.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Asthma patients are at increased risk for adverse events and reoperation following posterior lumbar fusion.PloS one · 2026Article
- Anesthesia for thoracic surgery in infants with congenital lung malformations.World journal of pediatric surgery · 2026Review
- Alcohol septal ablation in drug-refractory hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy patient with multiple comorbidities.Journal of cardiology cases · 2025Article
- Comprehensive Strategies for Preoperative Pulmonary Risk Evaluation and Management.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2025Article
- Inhaled Anesthetics: Beyond the Operating Room.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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- State of the Art in Pediatric Anesthesia: A Narrative Review about the Use of Preoperative Time.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Ketamine, an Old-New Drug: Uses and Abuses.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- General Anesthesia in Early Childhood Significantly Reduces Asthma Incidence and Clinical Visits: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Application of multimodal analgesia combined with opioid-free anesthetics in a non-intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery bullectomy: A case report.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Article
- Effect of General Anesthesia Maintenance with Propofol or Sevoflurane on Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Eosinophil Blood Count: A Prospective, Single Blind, Randomized, Clinical Study on Patients Undergoing Thyroidectomy.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Successful adrenaline treatment of perioperative severe bronchospasm combined with a silent lung: two case reports.Translational cancer research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Asthma is one of the commonest respiratory illnesses among elderly patients undergoing surgery. Detailed preoperative assessment, pharmacotherapy and safe anaesthetic measures throughout perioperative period are the keys to decrease complications. Resistance to expiratory airflow results in positive alveolar pressures at the end of expiration, which causes air-trapping and hyperinflation of the lungs and thorax, increased work of breathing, and alteration of respiratory muscle function. This systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for systematic review and metanalysis (PRISMA) statement. Search engines like PubMed through HINARI, Cochrane database and Google Scholars were used to find evidences. Low-dose IV ketamine, midazolam, IV lidocaine or combined with salbutamol are recommended to be used as premedication before induction. Propofol, ketamine, halothane, isoflurane and sevoflurane are best induction agents and maintenance for asthmatic surgical patients respectively. Among the muscle relaxants, vecuronium is safe for use in asthmatics. In addition, Succinylcholine and pancronium which releases low levels of histamine has been used safely in asthmatics with little morbidity.
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