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Chapter 4 - Reports and Guidelines Related to the Morbidly Obese Patient

from Section 1 - Background to Obesity, Epidemiology and Anthropology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2018

By
Kanchan Patil
Edited by
Christopher Bouch  and
Jonathan Cousins
Christopher Bouch
Affiliation:
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Jonathan Cousins
Affiliation:
Hammersmith Hospital
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Core Topics in Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Care of the Morbidly Obese Surgical Patient , pp. 16 - 20
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Cook, TM, Woodall, N, Frerk, C, on behalf of the Fourth National Audit Project. Major complications of airway management in the UK: results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 1: Anaesthesia. Br J Anaesth. 2011;106:617–31.Google Scholar
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Health and Social Care Information Centre. Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet: England 2015. 2015. www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-obesity-physical-activity-and-diet-england-2015 (accessed April 2018).Google Scholar
National Confidential Enquiry Into Patient Outcome and Deaths (NCEPOD). Too Lean a Service? A Review of the Care of Patients who Underwent Bariatric Surgery. 2012. www.ncepod.org.uk/2012report2/downloads/BS_fullreport.pdf (accessed April 2018).Google Scholar
Pandit, JJ, Andrade, J, Bogod, DG, et al. The 5th National Audit Project (NAP5) on accidental awareness during general anaesthesia: protocol, methods and analysis of data. Anaesthesia 2014;69:1078–88.Google Scholar
Joch, BYA, By, P, Forrest, S. Measuring Up: The Medical Profession’s Prescription for the Nation’s Obesity Crisis. 2007. www.aomrc.org.uk/publications/reports-guidance/measuring-up-0213/ (accessed April 2018).Google Scholar

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