Morbidly obese parturient: Challenges for the anaesthesiologist, including managing the diffifi cult airway in obstetrics. What is new?

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 508-521

  Rao, Durga Prasada ^a   Rao, Venkateswara A ^a  

^a Siddhartha Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

Adipocyte; Complications; Difficult airway; Morbidly obese; Parturient; Regional; Team work

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIST; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBID OBESITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OBSTETRICS; OXYGENATION; POSITION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 79251480782     PISSN: 00195049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.72639     Document Type: Review

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