Low Tidal Volume Ventilation With Low PEEP During Surgery May Induce Lung Inflammation

Values are indicated as the mean ± SD otherwise indicated
Age ^ais represented as the mean (range), gender ^bas a number, and Pringle maneuver ^cas median (25^th and 75^th percentiles)

Authors and Disclosures

Hitoshi Sato^1,4, Kyota Nakamura^1,2, Yasuko Baba^1,3, Shoko Terada^1,4, Takahisa Goto¹ and Kiyoyasu Kurahashi^1,4,5*

¹Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawaku, Yokohama, Japan. ²Present address: Advanced Critical Care and Emergency Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan. ³Present address: Operation Department, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan. ⁴Present address: Department of Anesthesiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan. ⁵Present address: Division of Critical Care Medicine, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan.

*Correspondence
kiyok@med.yokohama-cu.ac.jp

Authors' contributions
HS: study design, collection of data, drafting the work; KN: collection of data; YB: collection of data, revising the work critically for important intellectual content; ST: anesthetizing the study patients, revising the work critically for important intellectual content; TG: study design, revising the work critically for important intellectual content; KK: organizing the study group, study design, performed random assignment of patients, obtained funding, revising the work critically for important intellectual content. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.

Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.