Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Avi A Weinbroum

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• Review Article
  Role and Advantageousness of Ketamine in Obese and Non-Obese Patients: Peri-Interventional Considerations
  Author(s): Avi A WeinbroumAvi A Weinbroum
  
  Obese and morbidly obese patients are a growing group of individuals that generates medical, social and economic problems worldwide. They undergo various interventions that require anesthesia and/or analgesia. Despite their healthy look, these individuals are graded at high ASA physical status, mainly because of their impaired respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, and the metabolic changes their body undergoes. Opioids are the default drugs for perioperative analgesia. Nevertheless, their use has reached a frightening epidemic-like condition worldwide. Multimodal analgesia regimens have been recommended as a perioperative standard of care, particularly for the obese. These regimens employ combinations of opioids and non-opioid compounds that augment the formers' analgesic potencies, thus providing superior pain relief at rest, movement, or on effort, while reduc.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6148.1000827

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