Difficult Tracheal Intubation Is More Common in Obese Than in Lean Patients
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- 1 August 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Vol. 97 (2) , 595-600
- https://doi.org/10.1213/01.ane.0000072547.75928.b0
Abstract
Whether tracheal intubation is more difficult in obese patients is debatable. We compared the incidence of difficult tracheal intubation in obese and lean patients by using a recently validated objective scale, the intubation difficulty scale (IDS). We studied 134 lean (body mass index, <30 kg/m2) aKeywords
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