Perioperative management of obese patients

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 211-225

  Pelosi, Paolo ^a   Gregoretti, Cesare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b CTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

anaesthesia; mechanical ventilation; non invasive ventilation; obese patients; respiratory function

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; LARYNGOSCOPE; LUNG CAPACITY; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESISTANCE; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; OBESITY; OXYGENATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMEDICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TIDAL VOLUME; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; ANESTHESIA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANESTHESIA; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; OBESITY; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 77954907688     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2010.02.001     Document Type: Review

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