Toward prevention and treatment of postoperative pulmonary complications

The first reports about postoperative pulmonary complications we find in Gusenbacher and Piеtrzikowsky'oro, who drew attention to the connection between herniotomy for impinged hernias and the pulmonary complications that developed after it.Postoperative pulmonary complications undoubtedly occurred before, but then they were overshadowed by other, more formidable complications - septic ones, which abounded in the pre-antiseptic era. Now the latter have been minimized, but we have inherited the pulmonary complications entirely. They still visit every surgical hospital without exception, and surgeons are still far from being the winners in the fight against them. Only a very few surgeons have not had them in their practice at all.