Awake intubation and awake prone positioning of a morbidly obese patient for lumbar spine surgery

Anaesthesia

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 166-169

  Douglass, J ^a   Fraser, J ^b   Andrzejowski, J ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; NAPROXEN; PARACETAMOL; REMIFENTANIL; SEVOFLURANE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWAKE TRACHEAL INTUBATION; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BREATHING CIRCUIT; CAPNOMETRY; CASE REPORT; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NECK CIRCUMFERENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OPERATING TABLE; PATIENT POSITIONING; SCIATICA; SURGICAL PATIENT; URINE RETENTION;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; OBESITY, MORBID; PATIENT POSITIONING; POLYRADICULOPATHY; PRONE POSITION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84892798814     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12387     Document Type: Article

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