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Predictors of difficult airway in the obese are closely related to safe apnea time!

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: We aimed to redefine the preoperative factors that may challenge the airway and safe apnea time (SAT) in the obese. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We analyzed 834 patients with body mass index (BMI) >35 kg/m(2) for their difficult airway score (DASc). DASc is a consolidation of measur...

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Autores principales: Sinha, Aparna, Jayaraman, Lakshmi, Punhani, Dinesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7047673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32174653
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/joacp.JOACP_164_19