Subject: Clinical medicine
Year: 2021
Type: Conference or Workshop Item
Type: PeerReviewed
Title: Difficult intubation in a young morbidly obese patient with COVID-19 bronchopneumonia: a case report
Author: Kraleva, Silvana
Author: Trojikj, Tatjana
Author: Stojcheska, Vase
Abstract: Introduction: the Coronavirus disease 19 pandemic has resulted in rapid upsurge in critically ill patients diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2, requiring emergency tracheal intubation. Continuous positive airway pressure – CPAP face mask ventilation is a first option in these patients if they don’t need mechanical ventilation. Tracheal intubation in the COVID-19 patients who are overweight and morbidly obese, comes with a higher risk for mortality and intubation failure compared to those with normal BMI. The first–pass success rate of tracheal intubation in the critically ill patients is often less than 80%, with up to 20% of the tracheal intubation taking more than two attempts.
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Relation: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/31578/
Identifier: oai:eprints.ugd.edu.mk:31578
Identifier: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/31578/2/Abstract_Book%2C_17th_World_Congress_of.1.pdfIdentifier: Kraleva, Silvana and Trojikj, Tatjana and Stojcheska, Vase (2021) Difficult intubation in a young morbidly obese patient with COVID-19 bronchopneumonia: a case report. In: 17th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, September 1–5, 2021.
