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Comparison of the glottic view during video-intubation in super obese patients: a series of cases

Videolaryngoscopes improve the view of the entry to the larynx in morbidly obese patients. Super obesity is one of the risk factors for difficult mask ventilation as well as difficult intubation. Super obese patients should be intubated awake either with a fiber-optic scope or with a videolaryngosco...

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Autor principal: Gaszyński, Tomasz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5113935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956835
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/TCRM.S118339