General biological characteristics of the etiology of postoperative complications in patients with surgical diseases of the lungs

: The causes of lethal outcomes (n = 60) and postoperative complications which occurred in 26.1% of 610 patients operated on for lung cancer were investigated with due consideration for the regularities of thermodynamics of nonequilibrium processes and theory of disasters. A total systems pathological inflammatory reaction, which augments the injury by many times and develops as a result of inadequate anesthesiological protection, underlies the development of the most unfavorable variant of response to surgery leading to life-threatening complications, such as pneumonia, thromboembolism, or ulcerative hemorrhages.