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Today you are anesthetizing a 54-year-old man (130 lbs, 5′11″, ASA 2) for a prostatectomy. He has obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and uses a CPAP at home. You are with a medical student. The patient is taken to the operating room where routine monitors are placed. Induction of anesthesia is uneventful and the medical student successfully secures the airway with an endotracheal tube. Thereafter mechanical ventilation commences. You let the medical student draw up more fentanyl and tell him to give the patient 100 μg. As he is about to inject the fentanyl, you notice that there are a few small air bubbles in the syringe.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2017). Case 97: A Patient with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. In: Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71467-7_97
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