Airway management in obese patients

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 809-815

  Aceto, Paola ^a   Perilli, Valter ^a   Modesti, Cristina ^a   Ciocchetti, Pierpaolo ^a   Vitale, Francesca ^a   Sollazzi, Liliana ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airway Assessment; Airway Management; Difficult intubation; Obese patients

Indexed keywords

REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM; SHORT ACTING DRUG; SUGAMMADEX; SUXAMETHONIUM;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIST; AROUSAL; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BAROTRAUMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; EXTUBATION; FATIGUE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG ALVEOLUS HYPOVENTILATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; NECK CIRCUMFERENCE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROMUSCULAR MONITORING; OBESITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHARYNX; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA;

AIRWAY ASSESSMENT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; DIFFICULT INTUBATION; OBESE PATIENTS;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84885027341     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: 18787533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2013.04.013     Document Type: Review

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