Anaesthesia in patients with severe obesity: An uncharted journey

Administration of anaesthesia to patients with severeobesity comes with its own challenges. This has becomeeven more relevant in current day times as the number ofpeople with severe obesity is increasing rapidly. There is aneed for all treating doctors, including the referringphysician, the anaesthetist, the operating surgeon, and thepost-operative intensivist, to understand and counselabout these risks to patients with obesity in theperioperative period. In this paper, the authors highlightthe risks associated with anaesthesia in a patient withsevere obesity. In addition, the risk assessment and theimpact of obesity on the usage of different anaestheticagents are also highlighted.