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01-10-2016 | Letter to the Editor

Difficult Tracheal Intubation in Obese Gastric Bypass Patients

Authors: Sébastien Bertran, Elie Chouillard, Radwan Kassir

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 10/2016

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Difficult tracheal intubation (DTI) is a worrying feature of difficult airway [1]. Anesthesiologists know that correct oxygenation is the cornerstone of rapid sequence induction and airway management. Strategies to predict DTI, difficult face mask ventilation, or both [2, 3] and algorithms were proposed [4] to tackle this issue. …

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Title: Difficult Tracheal Intubation in Obese Gastric Bypass Patients
Authors: Sébastien Bertran
Elie Chouillard
Radwan Kassir
Publication date: 01-10-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Obesity Surgery / Issue 10/2016
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-016-2332-8

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