TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Ventilatory Management of the Obese Patient
A1  - Hess, Dean R.
A1  - Kacmarek, Robert M.
PY  - 2019
T2  - Essentials of Mechanical Ventilation, 4e
AB  - Describe  the  obesity  epidemic  in  the  United  States.Describe  the  pulmonary  pathophysiologic  changes  that  occur  in  healthy  obese  patients.Describe  the  relationship  between  body  mass  and  lung  size  in  the  obese  patient  as  applies  to  selection  of  tidal  volume.Discuss  the  use  of  lung  recruitment  maneuvers  and  decremental  positive  end-expiratory  pressure  (PEEP)  in  obese  patients.Discuss  the  limitations  of  lung  protective  ventilation  in  the  obese  patient.Discuss  the  ventilator  liberation  process  for  the  obese  patient.Discuss  the  use  of  continuous  positive  airway  pressure  (CPAP)  and  noninvasive  ventilation  (NIV)  for  obese  patients  post  extubation.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/25
UR  - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157419429
ER  -