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Morbid Obesity Pharmacology in Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia Coffee Break

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How to Estimate the Dose of Pro Fall in a Morbidly Obese Patient

Sucks and the bony interesting, which is the drug we gave for the induction. And I think we know with the example that you gave of this patient of 280 kilos, let's work out what the doses of pro fall would be for each of those scalar weights. So imagine 73 kilo person giving a intubating dose, roughly 72, 90 milligrams would be pretty reasonable. Now just to extend that, pro fall maintenance, maybe should be on adjusted body weight. But they are saying that total body weight, based on clinical trials of the best intubating conditions was the right method of dosing succes and adonium. That's what the examiner

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