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One lung ventilation (OLV) involves mechanically separating the lungs to ventilate only one lung. It is commonly used during thoracic surgery to improve surgical exposure by collapsing one lung. The key indications for OLV are to facilitate surgical access or isolate a diseased lung. Physiologically, OLV reduces but does not eliminate blood flow to the non-ventilated lung due to hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and positioning effects. Various maneuvers like denitrogenation, low suction, and prolonged exp

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