title: Promoting positive outcomes in obese patients.
abstract: Obese patients are seen in every practice setting. Obesity is a chronic disease that may lead to physical and emotional problems, which may have an impact on the social and psychological functioning of the patient. With appropriate preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative precautions; monitoring; and restructuring the environment to promote care and safety, the incidence of poor surgical outcomes can be minimized. This paper will address the significance of obesity, related diseases, and proper care of the obese patient.
authors.affiliation: Center for Wound Healing, Nebraska Health Systems, Clarkson Hospital, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Troia
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing*; D019990:Perioperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012307:Risk Factors; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000451:nursing; D016896:Treatment Outcome