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Xenon Anesthesia Improves Respiratory Gas Exchanges in Morbidly Obese Patients

Background. Xenon-in-oxygen is a high density gas mixture and may improve PaO2/FiO2 ratio in morbidly obese patients uniforming distribution of ventilation during anesthesia. Methods. We compared xenon versus sevoflurane anesthesia in twenty adult morbidly obese patients (BMI > 35) candidate for...

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Autores principales: Abramo, Antonio, Di Salvo, Claudio, Foltran, Francesca, Forfori, Francesco, Anselmino, Marco, Giunta, Francesco
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20721352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/421593