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Mechanical Ventilation in the Obese Patient

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Obesity has become a worldwide health concern and represents a specific population. We are seeing an increasing number of obese patients coming to our intensive care units with various medical problems; among them are phlebitis due to venous stasis; coronary heart disease resulting from a combination of diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension; nonalcoholic liver disease, steatosis, steatohepatitis, and cirrhosis; idiopathic intracranial hypertension and stroke; and also pulmonary diseases like abnormal respiratory function (reduced residual functional capacity), obstructive sleep apnea, and hypoventilation syndrome. Moreover, these patients represent a challenge for the ICU team, and we always need to prepare for a high-risk difficult airway management, and many of these patients will require mechanical ventilation.

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  1. Critical Care Division, Belize Healthcare Partners, Belize, Belize

    Jorge Hidalgo

  2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Panama, Panama City, Panama

    Jorge E. Sinclair De Frías

  3. Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

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  1. Critical Care Division Belize Healthcare Partners, Belize, Belize

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  2. Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Robert C Hyzy

  3. Critical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Ahmed Mohamed Reda Taha

  4. Critical Care, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Hidalgo, J., Sinclair De Frías, J.E., Hidalgo, A. (2022). Mechanical Ventilation in the Obese Patient. In: Hidalgo, J., Hyzy, R.C., Mohamed Reda Taha, A., Tolba, Y.Y.A. (eds) Personalized Mechanical Ventilation . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14138-6_9

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