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No patient with an active pulmonary infection should be permitted to undergo elective surgery. Anaesthesia and surgery both may exacerbate any respiratory infection.
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Woerlee, G.M. (1988). Pulmonary Infections and Anaesthesia. In: Common Perioperative Problems and the Anaesthetist. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1323-3_34
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