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Case 96: A Patient in the Prone Position – Watch Out

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Today you are anesthetizing a 38-year-old woman (200 lb, 5′4″, BMI 33, ASA 2) for stereotactic craniotomy in a prone position without neuro-monitoring. The patient has a class 1 airway.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    John G. Brock-Utne MA, MD, PhD, FFA(SA)

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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2017). Case 96: A Patient in the Prone Position – Watch Out. In: Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71467-7_96

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