Methods
dyspnea, wheezing, nausea and vomiting, postoperative shivering, COPD
COPD, BRONCHOSPASM
This single-center, double-blind, parallel-group, randomized clinical trial was performed on 120 smoking patients with COPD who were referred to 5 Azar Educational Hospital in Gorgan, Northern Iran, in 2021. Twenty minutes before general anesthesia and also after completion of surgery and before extubation, 60 patients in the intervention group were inhaled with 2 puffs of albuterol spray. In the control group, patients were inhaled with 2 puffs of placebo spray. In perioperative period, the occurrence of wheezing, bronchospasm, coughing, hemodynamic changes, postoperative shivering, dyspnea, and nausea and vomiting were evaluated in all patients. The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) checklist was used to report important aspects of this study.