Chapter 15 Pushing the patient boundaries

Peri-operative management of the obese surgical patient 2015

“…Current guidelines advocate automatic acceptance of patients with BMI < 40 kg.m −2 . A casenote review should be carried out by an anaesthetist to determine whether individualised discussion and assessment may be required before the day of surgery for those with co‐morbidities or BMI > 40 kg.m −2 .…”

Home recovery following day surgery: a patient perspective

“…Such a range of surgical and anaesthetic experiences may have influenced events during recovery. Second, although increasing age is not a barrier to day surgery (Jones & Montgomery ), being an older adult and undergoing day surgery may have a greater impact on the home recovery experience. The mean age of participants was 55 years although 70 patients were septuagenarians (70s), 18 octogenarians (80s), one nonagenarian (90s) and one centenarian (108 years).…”