Extract Paternalism has a bad name in modern medicine. And it is of course requisite for physicians to take the wishes and biases of patients strongly into consideration when arriving at any treatment recommendation. However, in this era of the availability of increasingly so-called "minimally invasive" procedural therapies, patients will, in the absence of guidance, unfailingly choose the procedure that is, often inaccurately, labelled "less invasive."
European Respiratory Journal published a clinical update in Critical Care on 02 Apr 2026.
The item focuses on Lung volume reduction surgery should be the default volume reduction approach for most emphysema patients.
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