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Non-invasive ventilation prevents post-operative respiratory failure in patient undergoing bariatric surgery: a retrospective analysis
2022-09-02
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<h4>Purpose: </h4> Postoperative non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has been proposed as an attractive strategy to reduce morbidity in obese subjects undergoing general anesthesia. The increased body mass index (BMI) correlates with loss of perioperative functional residual capacity, expiratory reserve volume, and total lung capacity. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the efficacy of NIV in post-anaesthesia...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8a1a2193-b9a1-5bf1-a187-0bcbd4006233
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2008667/v1
