Key result
Anesthetic management of obese patients requires careful preoperative assessment, anticipation of difficult airways, and preference for regional anesthesia to optimize perioperative outcomes.
Obese patients present unique perioperative challenges requiring specialized anesthetic management, including careful airway assessment and a preference for regional anesthesia.
Supports specialized anesthetic planning in obesity; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
The obese patient presents many challenges to anaesthesiologist. A good understanding of the pathophysiologic effects of obesity and its anaesthetic implications is important. The anaesthesiologist must recognize increased risks and comorbidities inherent to the obese patient and manage accordingly, optimizing multisystem function in the perioperative period that leads to successful outcomes. Perioperative issues such as intravenous access, difficulty in measuring non invasive blood pressure, difficult spinal, epidural and difficult airway should be anticipated and planned.
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Bansal et al. (2014) conducted a review in Obesity requiring anesthesia. Anesthetic management was evaluated. Anesthetic management of obese patients requires careful preoperative assessment, anticipation of difficult airways, and preference for regional anesthesia to optimize perioperative outcomes.
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