Tricky, nuanced question because contraindication to patient receiving a lung resection is if their residual FEV1 will be less than 800 mL following the surgery
Normal FEV1 in a healthy woman is typically around 3 L, so in this patient is likely close to 750 mL since she has an FEV1 that is 25% of predicted; therefore, this patient would likely not be able to tolerate any sort of lung resection because she is already barely hanging on in terms of her ventilatory capabilities
Could also approach this question through process of elimination because ABG shows mild CO2 retention (seen in many COPD patients), ejection fraction cut-off for surgery often <35%, cardiac stress test was normal and patient has had DVTs for a long time
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