Is not high-inspired oxygen fraction really a risk for postoperative pulmonary complications in obese patients?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 229-230

  Xue, Fu Shan ^a   Liao, Xu ^b   Wang, Qiang ^b   Yuan, Yu Jing ^b   Liu, Jian Hua ^a  

^a PLASTIC SURGERY HOSPITAL   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGE; ATELECTASIS; BODY MASS; BREATHING EXERCISE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COUGHING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCISION; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; OXYGENATION; PNEUMONIA; POSITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SUPINE POSITION;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION; MALE; OBESITY; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84555190384     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31823c7e93     Document Type: Letter

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