General Anesthetic Care of Obese Patients Undergoing Surgery: A Review of Current Anesthetic Considerations and Recent Advances

Obesity has long been linked to adverse health effects over time. As the prevalence of obesity continues rise, it is important anticipate and minimize complications that brings in anesthesia setting during surgery. Anesthetic departments must recognize innumerable risks when managing patients with undergoing surgery, including anatomical physiological changes as well comorbidities such diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, malignancies. Therefore, purpose this review analyze current literature evaluate recent advances anesthetic care obese better understand specific challenges patient population faces. A greater understanding differences between for can help improve specificity treatment. The examination will focus on differing outcomes safety precautions compared general population. Specifically highlighting pre-operative, intra-operative, post-operative care, aim identify issues present possible solutions.