Anaesthesia before obesity surgery and all precautions
Do you want to be operated on to treat morbid obesity in Brussels or Liège? During your hospitalisation process, you will be brought to meet diverse medical representatives, one of whom the anaesthetist.
General anaesthesia: pre-operatory consultation
The general anaesthesia for surgery consists of:
- Maintaining vitals constantin their physiological values
- Ensure a hypnotic stateto provoke a loss of consciousness during the intervention
- Ensure muscle relaxation optimal to facilitate the surgeon’s job
- Stem the pain
The meeting with your anaesthetist is essential before the surgical intervention no matter the type of surgery to treat obesity. It should happen within the two weeks before the hospitalization or the old intervention.
Different tests are done to have a general point of view. This is to determine all the risks of possible complications, control them and discard them. The information to be given to your anaesthetist is as follows:
- Your medical, surgical, and family background
- Your possible allergies
- Your medicaltreatments in progress: some are susceptible to be stopped before the surgery
The anaesthesia consultation consists also of explaining to you the different steps of your hospitalisation.
The potential complications for an obese patient
Pre-operative assessment allows adaption to the anaesthetics techniques to your medical profile.
A personalization care allows us to humanize the process, as well as to bring the quality by a better continuity: your anaesthetist will perform your pre-operative assessment will be the one who will be used in the operating room and will follow you throughout your hospitalization. They would be reachable by our nursing team during your hospitalization.
The anaesthesia for the bariatric surgery is a particular discipline, so that anaesthesia companies in bariatric surgery recommend a minimal of bariatric interventions by the anaesthetist and per year to acquire an expertise in the field.
Indeed, many factors are to be taken into particular account in obesity surgery whose, among others:
- Material adapted to the corpulence
- Risk of intubation endotracheal because it ismore delicate
- Cardiovascular and respiratory background more frequent among the population of bariatric patients
- Higher frequency of sleep apnoea
- Support of diabetes
Your anaesthetist specializes in bariatric surgery, such as gastric bypass, for example, put a particular anaesthesia protocol in place, called “opioid free anaesthesia”, the complete eviction of morphine and its derivatives during the surgical intervention. That allows for the reduction not only sleep apnoea, nausea, and post-operative vomiting.
Quick rehabilitation after a bariatric operation
The personalisation of care facilitates an approach of quick rehabilitation after the bariatric surgery. Each member of the medical team – surgeon, anaesthetist, nutritionist – ensures care the best suitable and the most secure possible. Everyone ensures a follow through during the post-operative period, but also a long-term after your treatment against the obesity.
Want to know more about stomach surgeries and their specific processes in Liège or Brussels?
Contact the specialized clinic to treat obesity Doctor Himpens or Doctor Dandrifosse, in Liège or Brussels to receive information or a consultation. Our medical team is available to answer your questions as quickly as possible.