The balance of Anesthesia with sevoflurane, Maintaining Lung Function

 In animal studies the use of sevoflurane has shown protective effects against lung, as shown by the results in which sevoflurane reduce lung damage and can maintain lung function in acute lung injury.

W. Tiefenthaler and his colleagues have done one of these studies, and has been published in the British Journal of Anesthesia in 2010. The study was conducted to examine the effects of total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA or induction and maintenance of anesthesia with intravenous anesthetics) and balanced anesthesia (induction of anesthesia with intravenous anesthetics, maintenance of anesthesia with inhalation anesthetics) with sevoflurane on postoperative pulmonary function.