Managing acute respiratory decompensation in the morbidly obese

Respirology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 759-771

  Bahammam, Ahmed S ^a   Al Jawder, Suhaila E ^a,b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Salmaniya Medical Complex ^*  (Bahrain)

Author keywords

acute respiratory failure; hypercapnia; hypoxaemia; non invasive ventilation; obesity hypoventilation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING MUSCLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOVENTILATION; HYPOXEMIA; INTUBATION; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG MECHANICS; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; LUNG VOLUME; MORBID OBESITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NON INVASIVE VENTILATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATION CONTROL; REVIEW; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANOXIA; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; OBESITY, MORBID; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84856419443     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.02099.x     Document Type: Review

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