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Atelectasis in obese patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery are not increased upon discharge from Post Anesthesia Care Unit
2023-04-18
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<h4>Background: </h4> Obese patients frequently develop pulmonary atelectasis upon general anesthesia. The risk is increased during laparoscopic surgery. This prospective, observational single-center study evaluated atelectasis dynamics using Electric Impedance Tomography (EIT) in patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery. <h4>Methods: </h4> We included adult patients with ASA physical status I-IV and a B...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e266a5f2-b78d-53bf-99ea-e25da698dd5d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2756202/v1
