Challenges in the surgical management of spine trauma in the morbidly obese patient: A case series

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-109

  Rosenfeld, Hannah E ^a   Limb, Rebecca ^b   Chan, Patrick ^b   Fitzgerald, Mark ^c   Bradley, William Pierre Litherland ^d   Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Morbid obesity; Spine trauma

Indexed keywords

PREGABALIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPHONIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTRAVASATION; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FLAIL CHEST; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HEART CONTUSION; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBID OBESITY; MYOTOME; NECK PAIN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NURSING CARE; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; ORTHOTICS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLATE FIXATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE INJURY; SPINE SURGERY; STERNOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WOUND HEALING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84880081525     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.4.SPINE12876     Document Type: Article

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