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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

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Archive >  Overweight Patients 2008

11 Anesthesia Safeguards For the Obese

Plan ahead to improve your ability to meet the needs of this challenging patient population.

Michael Schneider, MD

You can deliver quality anesthesia care to overweight and obese patients if you think through the challenges these patients present with and develop solutions in advance of the day of surgery.

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