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Guidelines<br />

Peri-operative management of the obese<br />

surgical patient 2015<br />

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and<br />

Ireland<br />

Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia<br />

Members of the Working Party: C. E. Nightingale, 1<br />

M. P. Margarson, 1 E. Shearer, 1 J. W. Redman, 1<br />

D. N. Lucas, 2 J. M. Cousins, 1 W. T. A. Fox, 1 N. J. Kennedy, 1<br />

P. J. Venn, 3 M. Skues, 4 D. Gabbott, 5 U. Misra, 2<br />

J. J. Pandit, 7 M.T. Popat 6 and R. Griffiths (Chair) 7<br />

1 Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia, 2 Obstetric Anaesthetists’<br />

Association, 3 Royal College of Anaesthetists, 4 British Association of Day<br />

Surgery, 5 Resuscitation Council (UK), 6 Difficult Airway Society, 7<br />

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland<br />

Summary<br />

Guidelines are presented for the organisational and clinical peri-operative<br />

management of anaesthesia and surgery for patients who are obese,<br />

along with a summary of the problems that obesity may cause peri-<br />

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons<br />

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and<br />

distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly<br />

cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations<br />

are made.<br />

© 2015 The Authors. Anaesthesia published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd<br />

on behalf of Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland<br />

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