Perioperative Considerations for Patients with Morbid Obesity

Anesthesiology Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 621-636

  Ebert, Thomas J ^a   Shankar, Hariharan ^a   Haake, Rachel M ^a  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CELECOXIB; CISATRACURIUM; CLONIDINE; DESFLURANE; DEXKETOPROFEN; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DICLOFENAC; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; KETOPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NAPROXEN; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARECOXIB; PIROXICAM; ROFECOXIB; SEVOFLURANE; TENOXICAM;

ANESTHESIA; ATELECTASIS; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; LUNG ASPIRATION; MORBID OBESITY; NAUSEA; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VOMITING;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; OBESITY, MORBID; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTURE; PROPOFOL; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION;

EID: 33748946629     PISSN: 08898537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atc.2006.05.003     Document Type: Review

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