Anaesthetic experience of vertical banded gastroplasty

Abstract

We have reviewed data from 200 patients who underwent weight-reducing surgery in a district general hospital. Mean age was 38.5 yr (range 14-60 yr) and mean body mass index (BMI) 45.7 kg m-2 (range 30.0-86.8 kg m-2). There was one death, which resulted from pulmonary embolus 3 weeks after surgery. Upper abdominal surgery of this type is justified in the morbidly obese and problems were not encountered that would exclude its practice from non-specialized units.

Anaesthesia for Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery: First Time in Bangladesh - A Case Report

“…Most laparoscopic bariatric patients do well with local anesthetic wound infiltration and basic parenteral narcotics, such as PCA. In a study of 200 patients who underwent VBG 36 , effective postoperative analgesia sufficient to allow mobilization was achieved by IV infusion of opioids or PCA.…”

Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty

“…Since a body mass index (BMI) of>30 is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, from Correspondence to: N. N. Williams stroke, ischemic heart disease, and diabetes mellitus, morbidly obese individuals (i.e., those with >100% (ideal body weight or BMI >40 kJm 2) are especially at risk. In the United States, health care costs attributable directly to the complications of obesity amount to $68 billion per year, and an additional $30 billion per year is spent on weight reduction programs and special foods [10,21].…”