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Morbid Obesity Pharmacology in Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia Coffee Break

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The Importance of Lean Body Mass in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease

The muscle compartment has a higher amount of cardiac output. So it's actually quite active pharmacokinetically, and therefore contributes to the distribution of the drug. And so conceptually there, when we talk about lean body mass, or lean body weight, sorry, we're talking about the addition of the muscle component. Is that right? Yeah, I think so. Go through the definitions over. Yes.

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