Awake endotracheal intubation and prone patient self-positioning: Anesthetic and positioning considerations during percutaneous nephrolithotomy in obese patients

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1599-1602

  Wu, Simon D ^a   Yilmaz, Meltem ^a   Tamul, Paul C ^a   Meeks, Joshua J ^a   Nadler, Robert B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CETACAINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; OPIATE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; AWAKE ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOBRONCHIAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPE INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FIBEROSCOPE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PREMEDICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; WAKEFULNESS;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; OBESITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRONE POSITION;

EID: 70350734265     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2009.1524     Document Type: Article

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