February 26, 2008
More Surgery Problems For Obese Children
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An article in the March issue of Anesthesiologyreports that obese children are more likely to have problems duringsurgery. Specifically, obese children are more prone to problems withairway obstruction and other functions pertaining to breathing comparedto normal-weight children. They had higher rates of difficult maskventilation, airway obstruction, and major oxygen desaturation - adecrease in blood oxygen levels.Researcher Alan R.
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