@article{922894,
      recid = {922894},
      author = {Foschi, Diego, and Navarra, Giuseppe,},
      title = {Emergency surgery in obese patients /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages) :},
      abstract = {This comprehensive, multi-authored book covers all aspects  of surgery on obese patients in emergency conditions.  Obesity is a metabolic disease affecting a high percentage  of world population.. It involves marked anthropometric  changes, affecting surgical practice and altering patients'  ability to react to surgical stress. The prevalent  comorbidities also affect the rate of complications and  mortality after surgery. The obesity paradox, the ability  of obese patients to survive emergency operations in spite  of an increased risk of complications, is an effect of the  widespread development of "Obesity Science". This volume  discusses this science, examining the frailty of the obese  patients and the main comorbidities that affect clinical  practice, as well as the most frequent emergency situations  after trauma, inflammatory diseases and the complications  of bariatric surgery. With contributions from leading  experts, it provides clinicians with detailed and updated  information for better practice in this emerging field of  surgery.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/922894},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17305-0},
}