Liposuction: Anaesthesia challenges

Liposuction

DESCRIPTION A 36-year-old man presents to the plastic surgeon's office for consultation regarding his desire for liposuction. He is overall healthy with a nonsignificant medical history. His height and weight are 166 cm and 68.2 kg, respectively.

Liposuction

Advent of the tumescent technique in 1987 has allowed for safe contouring in ambulatory single session liposuction under regional or general anaesthesia. Safety and aesthetic issues define MegaLiposuction to be in Volume in litres of more than 10% of Body weight in Kgs. 870 cases of liposuction were performed between September 2000 and August 2008. In (65%) cases, the total volume of aspirate w...

Challenges of anaesthesia research in developing countries.

Complications of Liposuction

Liposuction, a surgical intervention designed to treat superficial and deep deposits of subcutaneous fat distributed in aesthetically unpleasing proportions, has proven to be a successful method of improving body contour. Liposuction is so successful, in fact, that it is commonly performed in the office-based surgery setting. Liposuction is one of the most common surgical interventions carried ...

Complications of liposuction.

This article discusses the complications of liposuction and is divided into two parts. The first part discusses surgical and systemic complications. Since liposuction is surgery, it has the same complications as any surgery, but because of the minimalization of the procedure done by the author since he invented it in 1977, the complications were and are still minimal in the traditional way. Oth...