Lung Surgery Complications and Risks
Like with any surgical procedure, there are risks inherent to any lung surgery, both open lung procedures and keyhole procedures. Any surgery that requires full anesthesia can lead to difficulty in a patient’s breathing or have poor reactions to medications used in the anesthesia, but lung surgery, in particular, has many other risks such as causing a lung to collapse and not being able to re-inflate it correctly, damage sustained to the blood vessels or the tissue within the lung, fluid building up in the chest cavity repeatedly that could necessitate a chest tube being implanted, and pain among a few. Sometimes these complications might even require additional surgeries to remedy – which might lead to other complications of their own.