Background: injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve during cardio-thoracic surgery is a well described phenomenon with an incidence of 1-2%, but is overlooked as a complication during admission. It may lead to an impaired ...
Background and purpose
The incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications is high, especially in patients undergoing thoracic and (upper) abdominal surgery and postoperative complications within this group are associated ...
