Main description:

Obesity is increasingly prevalent in Western societies, and obese patients frequently present to hospital for surgery and anaesthesia. Obese patients pose a major clinical challenge to the anaesthetist, who must take into account the special anatomical, physiological, pharmacological, and psychological requirements of this patient group. This second edition of the successful pocketbook Anaesthesia for the Overweight and Obese Patient incorporates the latest advances in the field, particularly those relating to obesity in critical care, pharmacology and antibiotics. It also includes new chapters on screening and cardiac risk in obesity surgery, obesity and artificial ventilation, and bariatric surgery in the elderly.

Contents:

1. Definitions, social trends, and epidemiology ; 2. Physiology of obesity, molecular and medical approaches ; 3. Obesity and systemic physiology ; 4. Obesity comorbidities ; 5. Disorders of sleep and respiratory control in obesity: perioperative assessment and management ; 6. Anaesthetic pharmacology and obesity ; 7. Preoperative assessment and preparation ; 8. Screening and cardiac risk in obesity surgery ; 9. Practical conduct of anaesthesia and the anaesthetic environment ; 10. Obesity and the airway ; 11. Obesity and artificial ventilation ; 12. Recovery and post-operative care ; 13. Bariatric surgery and post-operative outcome ; 14. Bariatric surgery and the elderly ; 15. The obese patient in the critical care unit