Airway management and oxygenation in obese patients

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 929-945

  Murphy, Caitriona ^a   Wong, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BODY POSITION; BRONCHOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FLEXIBLE LARYNGOSCOPE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VOLUME; OBESITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN DESATURATION; OXYGEN MASK; OXYGENATION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE ATELECTASIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSURE SUPPORT VENTILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SUPRAGLOTTIC DEVICE; TRACHEOTOMY; TRANSTRACHEAL CATHETER; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRENDELENBURG POSITION; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPY;

AIRWAY EXTUBATION; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; OBESITY; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTURE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84883202856     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: 14968975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-013-9991-x     Document Type: Article

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