Increased apparatus dead space and tidal volume increase blood concentrations of oxygen and sevoflurane in overweight patients: a randomised controlled clinical study.

Summary, in English

General anaesthesia impairs respiratory function in overweight patients. We wanted to determine whether increased tidal volume (VT), with unchanged end-tidal carbon dioxide partial pressure (PETCO2), affects blood concentrations of oxygen and sevoflurane in overweight patients.

• Author: Bruno Enekvist; Mikael Bodelsson; Anders Johansson
• Department/s: Anesthesiology and Intensive Care; Department of Health Sciences
• Publishing year: 2011
• Language: English
• Pages: 382-386
• Publication/Series: European Journal of Anaesthesiology
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 5
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• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21499201?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EJA.0b013e328344b4b2
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: European Society of Anaesthesiology
• Topic: Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1365-2346