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Does your approach to extubating obese patients differ from your approach in non-obese patients?

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Pulmonology · Sutter Medical Center Sacramento

If the patient has OSA/OHs I often extubate directly to CPAP OR bipap especially if they have high compliance to OSA cpap therapy and are "used to the mask". But if high levels of secretions, NIV can make clearance of secretions more difficult. Thus, individualize therapy is indicated.

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