Morbid obesity
Subtitle: peri-operative management
By: [edited by] Adrian Alvarez ... [et al.].
Contributors: Alvarez, Adrian O.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521518840
Subjects: Morbid obesity -- Surgery; Obesity, Morbid -- surgery; Perioperative Care -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cardiovascular physiology / Donald P. Bernstein; title: Pulmonary physiology and sleep disordered breathing / Roman Schumann, Stephanie B. Jones; title: Digestive and metabolic physiology of obesity / Patrick J. Neligan; title: Pathophysiology of the pneumoperitoneum / Brian R. Smith and Ninh T. Nguyen; title: Choice of bariatric operation / Deborah Abeles, Brandon Tari, and Scott A. Shikora; title: Informed consent / Steve E. Raper; title: Pre-operative surgical management / Basil M. Yurcisin; title: Pre-operative management : nutritionist/psychologist/internist / Maria l. Collazo-Clavell, Helen Karakelides, and Eric J. Demaria; title: Positioning / Jay B. Brodsky; title: Monitoring the morbidly obese patient / Donald P. Bernstein; title: Effects of obesity on anesthetic agents / Hendrikus J.M. Lemmens and Jerry Ingrande; title: Airway management / Jeremy Collins; title: Ventilatory strategies during anesthesia / Juraj Sprung, Toby N. Weingarten, and David O. Warner; title: Regional anesthesia and obesity / Pedro P. Tanaka and Jay B. Brodsky; title: Post-operative analgesia / Adrian Alvarez; title: Post anesthesia care unit : management of anesthetic and surgical complications / Stephanie B. Jones, Roman Schumann, and Daniel B. Jones; title: Intensive care management of the critically ill obese patient / Jenny Choi and Alfons Pomp; title: Post-operative rhabdomyolysis / João Ettinger, Paulo Batista, and Euler Ázaro; title: Nursing considerations / Tracy Martinez; title: Long-term complications following surgery / Masha Livhits, Amy Lightner, and Melinda A. Maggard; title: Anesthetic considerations for the post-bariatric surgery patient / David Zvara, Ronald Harter, and Galina Dimirova; title: Bariatric outcomes / Gavitt A. Woodard and John M. Morton; title: Organizing a bariatric team / Fawzi S. Khayat and Matthew M. Hutter; title: Bariatric surgery in adolescents / Venita Chandra and Sanjeev Dutta; title: Management of the obese parturient / Yigal Leykin.