Postoperative considerations for patients with obesity and sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea and obesity are prevalent and often coexisting conditions that challenge medical, anesthetic, and surgical treatment. It is essential to possess knowledge of the magnitude of the sleep disorder as well as concomitant medical comorbidities. Management of obese patients requires a thorough preoperative evaluation and appraisal of anesthetic and operative risks. Postoperatively, these patients can present an additional challenge.
Bell
Robert L
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Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 40 Temple Street, Suite 3A, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. robert.bell@yale.edu
Rosenbaum
Stanley H
SH
D000762:Anesthesia Recovery Period; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000517:prevention & control; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*