Table of Contents
SECTION 1 FOUNDATIONS1. Obesity: A Global Epidemic, Bhavna Saxena and Ashish Sinha2. Defining Obesity, Sunil Sinha and Hawa Abubakar3. Genetics of obesity, Chase D. Rose and Ajintha Pathmanathan4. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in obesity, Tiffany Sun Moon and Babatunde O. Ogunnaike5. Opioid pharmacology in obese patients, Jan P. Mulier and Ruben Wouters6. Inhaled Anesthetics and Morbid Obesity, Luc De Baerdemaeker, Jan Hendrickx and Andre De Wolf7. Blocling Agents, Ajintha Pathmanathan and Paul StewartSECTION 2 OBESITY AND PHYSIOLOGY8. Metabolic Syndrome, Patrick J. Neligan9. Cardio-respiratory including airway changes in obesity, Jahan Porhomayon, Peter J. Papadakos10. OSA- Incidence, physiology and management, Raviraj Raveendran and Frances Chung11. CPAP physiology and perioperative implications, Rainer Lenhardt and Jerrad R. BusingerSECTION 3 NON-BARIATRIC SURGERY12. Thoraco-abdominal surgeries in obese patients, Deepu S. Ushakumari and Stephanie Rayos Callison13. Cardiac surgery in obese patients, Deepu S. Ushakumari and Kelly A. Machovec14. Obesity and Anesthesia for Spine and Neurosurgery, Anurag Tewari, Mahmood Ghazanwy and Eugenia AyrianSECTION 4 BARIATRIC SURGERY15. Patient Selection and Overview of Selected Procedures, Matthew E. Pontell, Alvaro Galvez and Andres Castellanos16. Outcomes in Bariatric Surgery, Gabriel Mekel, Elizabeth Renza-Stingone and Andres CastellanosSECTION 5 SPECIFIC CLINICAL ISSUES17. Pre-operative evaluation of the morbidly obese patient, Rajeshwari Subramaniam, Hemkumar Pushparaj and Ajisha Aravindan18. Perioperative analgesia, Dipty Mangla19. Postoperative complications in the obese patient and their management, S. R. Moonesinghe and Sara Bowman20. Ventilatory strategies in obese and obesity hypoventilation syndrome, Ranjani Venkataramani, Scott R. Coleman and Ashish Sinha21. Difficult airway management, Jeremy Collins and Brita M. Mittal22. Healthy Obese: A Paradox?, Anupama Wadhwa and Detlef Obal23. Peripheral Nerve Blocks in the Morbidly Obese, Anupama Wadhwa, Mansoor M. Aman and Fahad Aman24. CPR in the obese, Eric Stander25. Day care surgery, Adrian Sultana26. Fluid management in the Obese Patient, Michelle Cole, David Gilhooly and S. R. Moonesinghe27. DVT incidence, prophylaxis and management, Elizabeth A. Valentine28. Tissue oxygenation in obese, Shubhangi Singh, Prashant Singh and Preet M. SinghSECTION 6 OTHER IMPORTANT ASPECTS29. Perioperative paediatric obesity, Aditee P. Ambardekar and Alissa Doll30. Obesity in pregnancy, Onyi C. Onuoha31. ERAS and Obesity Surgery, Jon Livelsberger and Alla Spivak32. Obesity and Non-Operating Room Anesthesia, Akshat Gargya, Matthew Troum and Marc Goldberg33. Intensive care, Andrea Tsai and Roman Schumann34. Obesity and Trauma, Maureen McCunn, Justin Richards and Karla Greco35. Guidelines and Equipment in Obese Patients, Christian Balabanoff Acosta, Clint Fleckenstein and Eric Gewirtz36. Medicolegal issues and the Obese Patient, Abiona Berkley, Muhammad Ahmed and Jose Sosa-Herrera