Morbid Obesity

Preface; 1. Cardiovascular physiology Donald P. Bernstein; 2. Pulmonary physiology and sleep disordered breathing Roman Schumann and Stephanie B. Jones; 3. Digestive and metabolic physiology of obesity Patrick J. Neligan; 4. Pathophysiology of the pneumoperitoneum Brian R. Smith and Ninh T. Nguyen; 5. Choice of bariatric operation Deborah Abeles, Brandon Tari and Scott A. Shikora; 6. Informed consent S. E. Raper; 7. Pre-operative surgical management Basil M. Yurcisin; 8. Preoperative management: nutritionist/psychologist/internist Maria L. Collazo-Clavell, Helen Karakelides and Eric J. DeMaria; 9. Positioning Jay B. Brodsky; 10. Monitoring the morbidly obese patient Donald P. Bernstein; 11. Effects of obesity on anesthetic agents Jerry Ingrande; 12. Airway management Jeremy Collins; 13. Ventilation strategies during anesthesia Juraj Sprung, Toby N. Weingarten and David O. Warner; 14. Regional anesthesia and obesity Pedro P. Tanaka and Jay B. Brodsky; 15. Postoperative analgesia Adrian Alvarez; 16. Post anesthesia care unit (PACU): management of anesthetic and surgical complications Stephanie B. Jones, Roman Schumann and Daniel B. Jones; 17. Intensive care management of the critically ill obese patient Jenny Choi and Alfons Pomp; 18 Postoperative rhabdomyolysis João Ettinger, Paulo Batista and Euler Ázaro; 19. Nursing considerations Tracy Martinez; 20. Long-term complications following surgery Masha Livhits, Amy Lightner and Melinda Maggard; 21. Anesthetic considerations for the post-bariatric surgery patient David Zvara, Ronald Harter, Galina Dimitrova and Joseph G. Werner; 22. Bariatric outcomes Gavitt A. Woodard and John M. Morton; 23. Organizing a bariatric team Fawzi S. Khayat and Matthew M. Hutter; 24. Bariatric surgery in adolescents Venita Chandra and Sanjeev Dut; 25. Management of the obese parturient Yigal Leykin; Index.