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  • Title: Airway management in obesity hypoventilation syndrome.
    Author: McLear PW, Thawley SE.
    Journal: Clin Chest Med; 1991 Sep; 12(3):585-8. PubMed ID: 1934958.
    Abstract:
    The role of tracheostomy is limited in the obesity hypoventilation syndrome unless severe upper airway obstruction exists. If it is performed, special techniques must be applied to overcome the problems associated with tracheostomy in the morbidly obese patient. If attention is paid to these details, however, tracheostomy provides clinically important benefits in this difficult clinical situation.
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