Obese patients have double the risk of airway problems during an anesthetic, study shows

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 00:30 in Health & Medicine

A major UK study on complications of anesthesia has shown that obese patients are twice as likely to develop serious airway problems during a general anesthetic than non-obese patients.

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