Medical errors cannot be completely prevented, which makes maximising risk reduction even more important. Stay prepared with our extensive overview of the topic – because each solution is born from a cause.

Obese patients have a higher risk of complications. Get to know why and how you can pay particular attention to the specific needs of their perioperative care. Based on current literature, several methods in ventilation and positioning enable you to downsize the higher risk of complications.

Recruiting atelectasis intraoperatively can be an important clinical procedure, but is subject to controversy with respect to protective ventilation. Get the latest background

Every day you manage patients with healthy and injured lungs. Find out which patients may benefit from protective ventilation approaches and how this could be performed

Most critical incidents and many of the perioperative cardiac arrests in paediatric anaesthesia are related to the respiratory system. Anaesthetists face a special challenge in their job ventilating children, newborns and preemies. The conclusions are far from exhausted, yet we’d like to offer further insight into this topic to help you protect your patients.

See how you can fight the threats of ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI) – which often contributes to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) – by making the invisible visible! Our approach of image-guided lung protection reveals previously unseen ventilation needs and assists with personalised ventilation.

Early intraoperative spontaneous breathing might contribute to lung protection, although it only plays a minor role in current discussions. Learn more about another aspect of protective ventilation.

Besides economic effects, low-flow anesthesia can have relevant clinical benefits in the OR by contributing to lung protection. We provide for you this technology in detail.

Time pressure, high workloads, increasing paperwork, older and sicker patients, difficult techniques and exploding knowledge in a complex work environment is the other side of the story. How will these two sides of the coin impact patient safety in the future?