Do Difficult Airway Techniques Predispose Obese Patients to Bronchospasm?
Polyhronis IeropoulosVassilios TassoudisNick NtafoulisIoanna MimitouGeorge VretzakisGeorgios TzovarasDimitrios ZacharoulisMenelaos KaranikolasPublished in: Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation (2018)
Patients with morbid obesity constitute an increased relative risk group as far as difficult intubation is concerned, particularly if preoperative findings support a relationship between the two variables examined. In our study, difficult intubation and the concomitant use of special equipment and manipulations did not contribute to an increased rate of bronchospasm in obese patients, but in view of the lack of data, a large number of more sophisticated studies are required to elucidate such an assumption.
Keyphrases
- obese patients
- bariatric surgery
- weight loss
- roux en y gastric bypass
- gastric bypass
- cardiac arrest
- metabolic syndrome
- insulin resistance
- type diabetes
- electronic health record
- patients undergoing
- weight gain
- high fat diet induced
- big data
- physical activity
- deep learning
- skeletal muscle
- artificial intelligence
- adipose tissue