Key result
Literature review highlights safety concerns and difficulty establishing consensus BMI limits for office-based anesthesia.
Why the study?
The increasing prevalence of obesity challenges anesthesiologists providing office-based anesthesia due to safety concerns and lack of consensus on BMI limits.
Population
Obese patients undergoing procedures in office-based anesthesia settings
Design
Literature review
Authors
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Urges caution selecting obese patients for office-based anesthesia; leaves open consensus BMI thresholds.
This review highlights safety concerns and considerations for anesthesiologists treating obese patients in office-based settings, noting the difficulty in establishing consensus BMI limits.
Jeffrey W. Lee (2018) conducted a review in Obesity in ambulatory surgery. Office-based anesthesia was evaluated. A review of the literature highlights safety concerns and the difficulty in establishing consensus BMI limits for obese patients undergoing office-based anesthesia.
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