食管癌术后并发症致患者死亡的概率很高,其术后并发症以吻合口瘘和肺部感染为主,近些年来随着手术操作技能的提高以及麻醉、监护和营养支持等技术的提升,大大减少了食管癌术后吻合口瘘的发生率和死亡率,因此肺部感染就成为目前食管癌术后最常见的并发症之一,同时也成为食管癌术后并发症死亡的主要原因之一。那么,为什么食管癌术后容易出现肺部感染?又该如何预防和处理呢? Postoperative complications of esophageal cancer in patients with high probability of death, the postoperative complications of anastomotic leakage and lung infection mainly in recent years with surgical skills and anesthesia, monitoring and nutritional support technology Improve and greatly reduce the incidence and mortality of anastomotic fistula after esophageal cancer surgery, so pulmonary infection has become one of the most common complications of esophageal cancer surgery at the same time, but also become the main postoperative complications of esophageal cancer death one of the reasons. So, why postoperative esophageal cancer prone to pulmonary infection? And how to prevent and deal with it?