A patient undergoing surgery has only a few concerns regarding a successful operation. The main priority is the efficacy of the operation itself. Equally critical to a patient, however, is the assurance of anesthesia. Precise methods of anesthesia application vary according to each patient’s physiological conditions. Clinical anesthesia use on the obese is particularly complex, posing dangers to the patients. As complications continue to arise from the use of anesthesia on the obese, mandatory measures such as additional anesthetist training should be implemented on all perioperative stages to reduce risks to this growing patient population. Obesity is now considered a global epidemic, with particularly concentrated numbers in the United States. In 2011-2012 more than one-third of U.S. adults were estimated to be obese (National Center for Health Statistics, 2013). Due to the increasing prevalence of the epidemic, anesthesiologists must manage a significant number of clinically obese patients. A large range of physiological variations are associated with obesity, including cardiac, respiratory, and metabolic functions (Leykin, v). The areas of concern for anesthesiologists when operating on the obese can be separated into three perioperative stages: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative. Preoperative concerns are primarily focused around the specific medical conditions of each patient. As anesthesia is intricately tailored to patient specific requirements, it is of central importance that all factors are taken into consideration before surgery. This is especially true for the obese, who are likely to suffer from comorbidities (having more than one disease). Metabolic syndrome, a collective set of ... ... middle of paper ... ...1 (2012): 81-88. Web. Myatt, John, and Kevin Haire. "Airway Management in Obese Patients." Current Anaesthesia & Critical Care 21.1 (2010): 9-15. Web. Neligan, Patrick J. "Metabolic Syndrome: Anesthesia for Morbid Obesity." Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 23.3 (2010): 375-83. Web. Novation. Bariatric Supplies Market Research Report. Rep. N.p., Nov. 2012. Web. Porhomayon, J., P. Papadakos, and ND Nader. "Alteration in Respiratory Physiology in Obesity for Anesthesia-critical Care Physician." HSR Proceedings in Intensive Care and Cardiovascular Anesthesia 3.2 (2011): 109-18. Web. "Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults: United States, 2011–2012." National Center for Health Statistics. N.p., n.d. Web. . Stone, Julian, and William Fawcett. Anaesthesia at a Glance. N.p.: Wiley, 2013. Print.
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Bariatrics is the branch of medicine that focuses on the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity. Bariatric surgery is a specific discourse community connecting individuals through mutual interests, shared knowledge, and expertise of treating obese populations. The field of bariatrics is a discourse community with several purposes. It encourages innovative surgical and nonsurgical solutions in obesity care. It formulates hypotheses and develops and conducts experimental designs to test the hypotheses’ reliability and validity. Furthermore, it aims to stimulate discussion about its findings.
Bariatric surgery is an operation that is performed in order to help such individuals lose weight. Evidence suggests that bariatric surgery may lower death rates for patients
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Individuals need to understand the use of anesthesia always comes with risks. In most cases, however, it's safe when administered by someone with the proper training. Certain individuals, such as those with obstructive sleep apnea or ones who are obese, need to speak to their physician before being sedated, as their risk of complications is higher.
The obesity in the US has drastically increased in the last few decades due to an increase in the consumption of unhealthy foods and reduced physical activity levels. Nearly 78 million adults and 13 million children in the United States are dealing with the health and the emotional effects of obesity every day. Because obesity has massive implications in regards to the health of our society, this issue is cited almost daily in the news, on radio and televisions, journals and magazines. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) more than thirty percent of our adult population is diagnosed as obese, and there are several hundred of thousands of deaths each year that are associated with diseases caused by obesity as a primary contributing factor.
Obese patients had significantly greater reduction in BMI and weight but less improvement in exercise capacity th...
Bariatric surgery or the weight-loss surgery is an operation performed on abnormally obese people with a body mass index greater than 40 and is a service provided by an inter-disciplinary team – psychiatric, endocrine, rehab, nutritionist, cardiologist, and pulmonologist. Studies have shown that in seriously obese people, having weight loss surgery means they are likely to live longer because of the less risk of stroke, heart attacks, some types of cancer, and liver diseases. By dividin...
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Obesity is considered a chronic and multifactorial disease that has been increasing every day, just like its physical and psychological clinical comorbities. The bariatric surgery emerges as a surgical procedure to treat this disease, and considering the complexity of contributing factors for the obesity, it is necessary to understand the importance of multidisciplinary monitoring of the surgical team and the role of the psychologist in this context. From a qualitative research with EXPLORATORY DESCRIPTIVE DESIGN, guided by ethical principles, this study had semi-structured interviews, recorded and transcribed, to understand the role of the psychologist in the process of monitoring bariatric patients, supported by the perception of four psychoanalysts
Physical dimension can make difficult even the most basic nursing interventions for overweight patients. The areas which may create major nursing concerns are general assessment, skin care, resuscitation measures, respiratory challenges, intravenous access, altered drug absorption and immobility. As the pressure within the skin folds in overweight clients is high and it is sufficient to cause skin breakdown, atypical pressure ulcers are formed. In obese clients catheters, tubes and drainages can tunnel into the skin and soft tissues. Changing the position is another complicated concern for obese patients who are confined to bed. Use of a blood pressure cuff which is too small or attaching the cuff as one to attempt to make it fit w...