Continuous positive airway pressure in immediate postoperative period after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: is it safe?

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 544-546

  Ramirez, Alexander ^a   Lalor, Peter F ^a   Szomstein, Samuel ^a   Rosenthal, Raul J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous positive airway pressure; CPAP; Laparoscopic Roux en Y gastric bypass

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70249091409     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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