Post-anesthesia care unit desaturation in adult deep extubation patients

Abstract Objective Deep extubation refers to endotracheal extubation performed while a patient is deeply anesthetized and without airway reflexes. After deep extubation, patients are sent to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) to recover, an area with notably different management and staffing than...

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Main Authors: Jeremy Juang, Martha Cordoba, Mark Xiao, Alex Ciaramella, Jeremy Goldfarb, Jorge Enrique Bayter, Alvaro Andres Macias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05560-5