Chakravarthy Murali, Jawali Vivek
Wockhardt Heart Institute, 14 Cunningham Road, Bangalore 560052, Karnataka, India.
Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2007 Jun;15(3):e35-7. doi: 10.1177/021849230701500327.
In patients with bilateral bullous disease and empyema in one lung, controlled ventilation may be hazardous and result in severe hypoxia. A 50-year-old man with bullous disease and thoracic empyema on the left side was operated on under general anesthesia with spontaneous respiration using differential lung ventilation.