Article: Guide to the emergency management of morbidly obese patients: the rise in obesity means that more morbidly obese patients are being seen in emergency departments.(Clinical report)

Article: Pain catastrophizing in borderline morbidly obese ...
Pain Research & Management : The Journal of the Canadian Pain Society;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... LaCaille. Pain catastrophizing in borderline morbidly obese and morbidly obese individuals with osteoarthritic knee pain ... OBJECTIVE: There is limited information about how morbidly obese osteoarthritis (OA) patients cope with the ...

Article: Vancomycin Loading Doses in Morbidly Obese ...
Hospital Medicine Alert;  October 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Vancomycin Loading Doses in Morbidly Obese Patients Abstract & Commentary ... clearance (Clcr) does not apply to morbidly obese patients, given the lack of ... pharmacokinetics of vancomycin observed in morbidly obese patients and to provide recommendations ...

Article: Trauma in patients who are morbidly obese.
AORN Journal;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... care industry because patients who are morbidly obese are more difficult to treat than patients ... who are not. When a trauma victim is morbidly obese, more than the skill level of the ... mortality rates of trauma victims who are morbidly obese are eight times higher than the rates ...

Article: A comparative study of the complications of surgical tracheostomy ...
Critical Care;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... postoperative complications of tracheostomy in morbidly obese patients. The aim of this study was ... open tracheostomy in critically ill morbidly obese patients during hospitalization. Methods ... a six year period, all consecutive morbidly obese patients (body mass index [BMI ...

Article: Pain and discomfort discourages morbidly obese ...
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  May 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... complaints between lean, obese and morbidly obese women; and third, to identify anthropometric ... to27.5 kg/m[superscript]2), morbidly obese (n=133, BMIgreater than or equal ... walk test. The overweight/obese and morbidly obese subjects were significantly more likely ...

Article: Manhattan Pharmaceuticals Expanding Oral Oleoyl-estrone Clinical ...
PR Newswire;  October 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... clinical obesity program to include the morbidly obese. A new US Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating oral OE in morbidly obese male subjects will be initiated in October 2006. The morbidly obese population in the US is estimated to be 14 ...

Article: Medicare Advisory Panel Concludes Weight Loss Surgery Safe and ...
PR Newswire;  November 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... the access to care for people who are morbidly obese," said Harvey Sugerman, MD, President ... which covers weight loss surgery for morbidly obese patients with an obesity-related ... concluded that weight loss surgery for morbidly obese patients who have tried and failed ...