Department Blog
Posted 3/27/2019 by Linda Kesselring
Resuscitating the Crashing Obese Patient
Brian K. Parker, MD, MS, Sara Manning, MD, and Michael E. Winters, MD, MBA, published “The Crashing Obese Patient” in the March issue of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (2019;20:323-330). Their article focuses on critical components in the resuscitation of the crashing obese patient in the ED: intubation, mechanical ventilation, circulatory resuscitation, and pharmacotherapy.