Recent advances in anesthesia of the obese patient

The anesthetic management of an obese patient can be challenging because of the altered anatomy and physiology associated with obesity. In this article, I review the recent medical literature and highlight some of the controversies in the airway management and drug dosing of morbidly obese patients.

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Autor principal: Brodsky, Jay B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2018
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6081976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30135720
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.15093.1
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spelling pubmed-60819762018-08-21 Recent advances in anesthesia of the obese patient Brodsky, Jay B. F1000Res Review The anesthetic management of an obese patient can be challenging because of the altered anatomy and physiology associated with obesity. In this article, I review the recent medical literature and highlight some of the controversies in the airway management and drug dosing of morbidly obese patients. F1000 Research Limited 2018-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6081976/ /pubmed/30135720 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.15093.1 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Brodsky JB http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6081976/
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