Epidural analgesia for a laparotomy in morbidly obese patient with a history of difficult intubation [3]

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 312-313

  Loo, Karen ^a   Backman, Steven ^a   Moore, Anne ^a   Schricker, Thomas ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANALGESIA; ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVISCERATION; FACE MASK; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; OBESITY; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STOMACH BYPASS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 0037361237     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03017806     Document Type: Letter

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