Predictors of a difficult intubation in the bariatric patient: Does preoperative body mass index matter?

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 344-349

  Sheff, Sean R ^a   May, Maggie C ^a   Carlisle, Stephen E ^a   Kallies, Kara J ^a   Mathiason, Michelle A ^a   Kothari, Shanu N ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Anesthesia; Complications; Difficult laryngoscopy; Fiberoptic intubation; Laparoscopic gastric bypass; Morbid obesity; Preoperative characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; JAW MOVEMENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LARYNGOSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84878549442     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: 18787533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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