The Oxford Textbook of Anaesthesia for the Obese Patient is an evidence-based account of clinical practice in the field. Chapters are written by experts based in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia to reflect international practice.

SECTION 1 FOUNDATIONS 1: Bhavna Saxena and Ashish Sinha: Obesity: A Global Epidemic 2: Sunil Sinha and Hawa Abubakar: Defining Obesity 3: Chase D. Rose and Ajintha Pathmanathan: Genetics of obesity 4: Tiffany Sun Moon and Babatunde O. Ogunnaike: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in obesity 5: Jan P. Mulier and Ruben Wouters: Opioid pharmacology in obese patients 6: Luc De Baerdemaeker, Jan Hendrickx and Andre De Wolf: Inhaled Anesthetics and Morbid Obesity 7: Ajintha Pathmanathan and Paul Stewart: Blocling Agents SECTION 2 OBESITY AND PHYSIOLOGY 8: Patrick J. Neligan: Metabolic Syndrome 9: Jahan Porhomayon, Peter J. Papadakos: Cardio-respiratory including airway changes in obesity 10: Raviraj Raveendran and Frances Chung: OSA- Incidence, physiology and management 11: Rainer Lenhardt and Jerrad R. Businger: CPAP physiology and perioperative implications SECTION 3 NON-BARIATRIC SURGERY 12: Deepu S. Ushakumari and Stephanie Rayos Callison: Thoraco-abdominal surgeries in obese patients 13: Deepu S. Ushakumari and Kelly A. Machovec: Cardiac surgery in obese patients 14: Anurag Tewari, Mahmood Ghazanwy and Eugenia Ayrian: Obesity and Anesthesia for Spine and Neurosurgery SECTION 4 BARIATRIC SURGERY 15: Matthew E. Pontell, Alvaro Galvez and Andres Castellanos: Patient Selection and Overview of Selected Procedures 16: Gabriel Mekel, Elizabeth Renza-Stingone and Andres Castellanos: Outcomes in Bariatric Surgery SECTION 5 SPECIFIC CLINICAL ISSUES 17: Rajeshwari Subramaniam, Hemkumar Pushparaj and Ajisha Aravindan: Pre-operative evaluation of the morbidly obese patient 18: Dipty Mangla: Perioperative analgesia 19: S. R. Moonesinghe and Sara Bowman: Postoperative complications in the obese patient and their management 20: Ranjani Venkataramani, Scott R. Coleman and Ashish Sinha: Ventilatory strategies in obese and obesity hypoventilation syndrome 21: Jeremy Collins and Brita M. Mittal: Difficult airway management 22: Anupama Wadhwa and Detlef Obal: Healthy Obese: A Paradox? 23: Anupama Wadhwa, Mansoor M. Aman and Fahad Aman: Peripheral Nerve Blocks in the Morbidly Obese 24: Eric Stander: CPR in the obese 25: Adrian Sultana: Day care surgery 26: Michelle Cole, David Gilhooly and S. R. Moonesinghe: Fluid management in the Obese Patient 27: Elizabeth A. Valentine: DVT incidence, prophylaxis and management 28: Shubhangi Singh, Prashant Singh and Preet M. Singh: Tissue oxygenation in obese SECTION 6 OTHER IMPORTANT ASPECTS 29: Aditee P. Ambardekar and Alissa Doll: Perioperative paediatric obesity 30: Onyi C. Onuoha: Obesity in pregnancy 31: Jon Livelsberger and Alla Spivak: ERAS and Obesity Surgery 32: Akshat Gargya, Matthew Troum and Marc Goldberg: Obesity and Non-Operating Room Anesthesia 33: Andrea Tsai and Roman Schumann: Intensive care 34: Maureen McCunn, Justin Richards and Karla Greco: Obesity and Trauma 35: Christian Balabanoff Acosta, Clint Fleckenstein and Eric Gewirtz: Guidelines and Equipment in Obese Patients 36: Abiona Berkley, Muhammad Ahmed and Jose Sosa-Herrera: Medicolegal issues and the Obese Patient

Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the subject and resources at a high clinical level. The Oxford Textbook of Anaesthesia for the Obese Patient provides a practical and evidence based account of the principles and practice of anaesthesia for the obese patient. This new accessible reference book provides international evidence, authorship and expertise and will explore various international approaches to practice.

Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the subject and resources at a high clinical level. The Oxford Textbook of Anaesthesia for the Obese Patient provides a practical and evidence based account of the principles and practice of anaesthesia for the obese patient. This new accessible reference book provides international evidence, authorship and expertise and will explore various international approaches to practice.