Obesity in critical care

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-118

  Joffe, Aaron ^a   Wood, Ken ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Critically ill patients; Intensive care unit; Mortality; Obesity

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; ENOXAPARIN; FENTANYL; LINEZOLID; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NADROPARIN; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SUFENTANIL; TINZAPARIN;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIPOPHILICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; ULTRASOUND; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANESTHETICS; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OBESITY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34247095108     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3280803d5f     Document Type: Review

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