Adenotonsillar surgery in morbidly obese children: Routine elective admission of all patients to the intensive care unit is unnecessary

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 724-730

  Shine, N P ^a,b   Coates, H L ^a   Lannigan, F J ^a   Duncan, A W ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adenotonsillectomy; Airway; Intensive care unit; Obstructive sleep apnoea; Polysomnography

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; CENTRAL SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MORBID OBESITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TONSILLECTOMY; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY;

EID: 33845903563     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0603400607     Document Type: Review

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