The effect of bi-level positive airway pressure on postoperative pulmonary function following gastric surgery for obesity

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 672-676

  Ebeo, C T ^a,b   Benotti, P N ^c   Byrd Jr , R P ^a,b   Elmaghraby, Z ^d   Lui, J ^e  

^a James H Quillen VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^c VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric bypass; Obesity; Percent hemoglobin oxygen saturation; Pulmonary function tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BILEVEL POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH SURGERY;

EID: 0036737270     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/rmed.2002.1357     Document Type: Article

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