Successful management of a morbidly obese patient for electroconvulsive therapy with elective tracheostomy

Jeremy W Goldfarb; Edward A Bittner; Edward George; Charles Welch; Ulrich Schmidt

doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2010.05.009

Successful management of a morbidly obese patient for electroconvulsive therapy with elective tracheostomy

J Clin Anesth. 2011 May;23(3):241-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2010.05.009. Epub 2011 Apr 19.

Authors

Jeremy W Goldfarb¹, Edward A Bittner, Edward George, Charles Welch, Ulrich Schmidt

Affiliation

¹ Anesthesia and Critical Care, MGH, USA. jwgoldfarb@partners.org [corrected]

PMID: 21507618
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2010.05.009

Abstract

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment for affective catatonia and requires multiple general anesthetics. Morbid obesity is an increasingly prevalent condition that may complicate the standard anesthetic management of a patient undergoing ECT. We report the successful airway management of a morbidly obese ECT patient via elective tracheostomy.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Catatonia / complications
Catatonia / therapy*
Depression / therapy*
Electroconvulsive Therapy*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Obesity, Morbid / complications*
Tracheostomy / methods*