Detailed perioperative risk among patients with extreme obesity undergoing nonbariatric general surgery

The obesity epidemic has spread rapidly across the United States. Although overweight and obese patients have a paradoxically lower risk for postoperative morbidity and mortality, the risks associated with extreme classes of obesity (morbid obesity, super obesity, and super-super obesity) have not been described.

Source: Surgery - May 14, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Meera Gupta, Adam Dugan, Eduardo Chacon, Daniel L. Davenport, Malay B. Shah, Francesc Marti, J. Scott Roth, Andrew Bernard, Joseph B. Zwischenberger, Roberto Gedaly Source Type: research