Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 227-241 , June 2010

Management of mechanical ventilation during laparoscopic surgery

  • Franco Valenza, MD

      Affiliations

    • Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Anestesiologia, Terapia Intensiva e Scienze Dermatologiche, Via Festa del Perdono n.7, Milano, Italy
    • Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico. Via F. Sforza n.35, Milano, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena. Via F. Sforza 35 20122 Milano (MI), Italy. Tel.: +39 02 55033232; Fax: +39 02 55033230.
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  • Giorgio Chevallard, MD

      Affiliations

    • Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico. Via F. Sforza n.35, Milano, Italy
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  • Tommaso Fossali, MD

      Affiliations

    • Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico. Via F. Sforza n.35, Milano, Italy
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  • Valentina Salice, MD

      Affiliations

    • Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico. Via F. Sforza n.35, Milano, Italy
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  • Marta Pizzocri, MD

      Affiliations

    • Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico. Via F. Sforza n.35, Milano, Italy
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  • Luciano Gattinoni, MD

      Affiliations

    • Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Anestesiologia, Terapia Intensiva e Scienze Dermatologiche, Via Festa del Perdono n.7, Milano, Italy
    • Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico. Via F. Sforza n.35, Milano, Italy

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