Anesthesiologists will be faced with a growing number of high-risk airway patients who require procedures, reports Anesthesiology News.
As the prevalence of obesity and OSA increase in our population, periprocedural oxygenation will become more critical in the management of these patients. We are presented with far more intricate airway management dilemmas supplied by the increasing number of less invasive medical procedures, advancing preinduction oxygenation techniques, and the perennial question of postprocedural airway management.
