“As we know, obese patients often present with multiple comorbidities and the potential for difficult airway,” said Wejdan Battarjee, MD, an anesthesiology resident at Tufts Medical Center, in Boston. “As such, the decision to perform a supraglottic airway during general anesthesia in these individuals may be influenced by their comorbidities, airway abnormalities and aspiration risk. So, in our study, we hypothesized that severely obese patients receiving a supraglottic airway would score higher in all three of these domains than would patients with a lower BMI, and therefore present at greater risk of complications.”
