Recommendations for anesthetic management of the obese patient in Ambulatory Surgery

Abstract

In Portugal, as in almost all developed countries, there has been a remarkable growth in Ambulatory Surgery in the last decade. This growth has been based on a culture of quality, safety and efficiency centered on the patient, not the surgical pathology. Clinical Recommendations are key strategies for clinical Portuguese societies to promote safe clinical practice through the publication of various documents that were the final result of several Consensus Meetings organized by a Task Force of anesthesiology experts. As in other special populations, the obese patient deserves a special clinical approach from preoperative evaluation and anesthetic technique to recovery and discharge, due to several physiopathologic specificities that every anesthesiologist should bare in mind.