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SUBMITTER: Ferrando C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5642673 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferrando Carlos C Soro Marina M Unzueta Carmen C Canet Jaume J Tusman Gerardo G Suarez-Sipmann Fernando F Librero Julian J Peiró Salvador S Pozo Natividad N Delgado Carlos C Ibáñez Maite M Aldecoa César C Garutti Ignacio I Pestaña David D Rodríguez Aurelio A García Del Valle Santiago S Diaz-Cambronero Oscar O Balust Jaume J Redondo Francisco Javier FJ De La Matta Manuel M Gallego Lucía L Granell Manuel M Martínez Pascual P Pérez Ana A Leal Sonsoles S Alday Kike K García Pablo P Monedero Pablo P Gonzalez Rafael R Mazzinari Guido G Aguilar Gerardo G Villar Jesús J Belda Francisco Javier FJ
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<h4>Introduction</h4>Surgical site infection (SSI) is a serious postoperative complication that increases morbidity and healthcare costs. SSIs tend to increase as the partial pressure of tissue oxygen decreases: previous trials have focused on trying to reduce them by comparing high versus conventional inspiratory oxygen fractions (FIO<sub>2</sub>) in the perioperative period but did not use a protocolised ventilatory strategy. The open-lung ventilatory approach restores functional lung volume a ...[more]