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The Globesity Challenge to General Surgery

A Guide to Strategy and Techniques

  • Addresses the high prevalence of morbid obesity and the low availability of dedicated resources outside of bariatric centers

  • Explains straightforward surgical strategies in obese patients

  • Highlights daily "practicalities" for the general surgeon

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Definition, Epidemiology, and Social Implications of Obesity

    • Roberto Fabris, Roberto Serra, Roberto Vettor
    Pages 1-8
  3. Organizational Issues, Logistic and Economic Implications of Obesity

    • Ermenegildo Eldo Frezza, Mitchell S. Wacthel
    Pages 9-16
  4. Nursing and Psychological Issues in Obese Patients

    • Malihe Shams, Irene Favara, Elisa Meneghello, Fabiola Barzon, Alice Albanese
    Pages 17-26
  5. Surgical Practicalities: Fast-Track Lessons from a Bariatric Surgery Unit

    • Johannes F. Smulders, Jack J. Jakimowicz, Marc P. Buise
    Pages 55-69
  6. Head and Neck Surgery in Obese Patients

    • Maria Rosa Pelizzo, Isabella Merante Boschin, Rosario Marchese Ragona
    Pages 71-82
  7. The Impact of Obesity on Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

    • Gino Gerosa, Marco Schiavon, Giuseppe Marulli, Vincenzo Tarzia, Federico Rea
    Pages 83-108
  8. Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Diseases in Obesity

    • Gianfranco Silecchia, Carola Severi, Mario Rizzello
    Pages 109-139
  9. Lower GI Tract in Obesity

    • Mauro Toppino
    Pages 141-153
  10. Pancreas, Liver, and Adrenal Glands in Obesity

    • Emanuele Lo Menzo, Samuel Szomstein, Raul J. Rosenthal
    Pages 155-170
  11. Effects of Bariatric Surgery on the Kidneys and Urinary Tract

    • Marina S. Kurian, John J. Loy
    Pages 171-185
  12. OBGYN and Bariatric Surgery

    • Gerald J. Gracia, Maria Altieri, Aurora D. Pryor
    Pages 187-212
  13. Abdominal Wall

    • Enrico Melega, Mirto Foletto, Donato Nitti
    Pages 213-221
  14. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Obese Patients

    • Vincenzo Vindigni, Laura Masetto, Franco Bassetto
    Pages 223-236
  15. Bariatric Surgery Worldwide: Overview and Results

    • Luigi Angrisani, Michele Lorenzo
    Pages 237-246

About this book

The increasing prevalence of morbid obesity has led the World Health Organization to coin the descriptive term “globesity” to reflect the worldwide nature of the problem. Providing health care to these patients, especially when surgery is required, can be extremely challenging owing to the specific needs in respect of logistics, facilities, and professional expertise. Appropriate care has to date often been unachievable and unaffordable outside of established bariatric centers, but such centers themselves usually have insufficient capacity and resources to cope with the demand among the general population. This book therefore provides a wealth of guidance and helpful tips and tricks on how to deal with obese patients within a general surgery setting. Importantly, it highlights the need for global rethinking on public health as regards resource allocation and patterns and standards of care, with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes through greater affordability.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“This is a prime mover in a field where the unique experience of multidisciplinary specialists in bariatric surgery is distilled for application in general surgery (and medicine in general) at a time when the problem of obesity is assuming global proportions. … The audience includes general surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, dietitians, psychologists, and hospital administrators.” (Isaac Samuel, Doody’s Book Reviews, October, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Clinica Chirurgica 1, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

    Mirto Foletto

  • Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, USA

    Raul J. Rosenthal

About the editors

After graduating in medicine and a fellowship at Debrecen University Hospital, Dr. Mirto Foletto specialized in General Surgery at Padua University, working as resident in General Surgery. He obtained the ATLS certification by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma in 1999, updated in 2008. He is a F.I.M. certified CMO (Chief Medical Officer). His training in laparoscopic surgery in Chimay (Belgium), under  Dr. T. Mignon and his work as surgeon in the community hospitals in the Vicenza district, Italy, lead him to his present high specialization in minimally invasive, laparoscopic and video assisted thoracoscopy (VAT) and bariatric surgery. He has been visiting surgeon at Anderson Cancer Center, Houston USA, Dept of Surgical Oncology, Head Dr. R. Pollock and at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles USA, Dept of minimally invasive and bariatric surgery, Head Dr. E. Phillips. In 2004 nominated Chief Surgeon (Free Surgical Camp) at Dept of Surgery of Pinnamaneni-Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Foundation, Vijaywada (Andhra-Pradesh) India, in the Padova Ospitale humanitarian mission framework. This experience was repeated both in India and in Sierra Leone. Author and co-author more than 60 articles published on International Journals, he is also member of the ESSO (European Society of Surgical Oncology), the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and of IFSO.

Dr. Raul J. Rosenthal completed his medical school and surgical residency in Rosario Argentina. In 1982 he emigrated to Germany he repeated residency and became attending surgeon at the Northwest Hospital.I n 1993 Dr. Rosenthal emigrated to the USA. Three years of fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA were followed by another residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NY. Since 1999 he is Chief of MIS and Bariatric Surgery and director of Fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida. He is currently the Chairman of the Department of General Surgery and director of the General surgery Residency Program. Dr. Rosenthal served on the Clinical Issues, Emerging Technologies, Institutional Relationships, and Education Committees of ASMBS. He is the former and founding chair of the International Development Committee, he currently serves as Secretary for the Florida Chapter, Liason to the Council for the State Chapters, Co Chair of the MBSQIP, and is an active member of the International, Surgical Education and Training, and Patient Safety Committees. He serves as ASMBS representative to IFSO and represented ASMBS on the Certified Obesity Medical Physician Taskforce by developing all bariatric surgery questions for the certifying examination. He is founding Clinical Editor of Bariatric Times, Associate Editor of SOARD and Editorial Board member of Selected Readings in General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy, and Obesity Surgery. As of 2011 Dr. Rosenthal was appointed as secretary to the Board of the ASMBS Foundation and is a member at large on the Executive Council of ASMBS. Areas of Research and Publication: He is author or co-author in over 300 abstracts and peer reviewed publications, more than 50 book chapters and over 100 educational videos. He is the Co Editor of the ASMMBS Bariatric Surgery Book (in print), Globesity (in print), Netter’s Gastroenterology, Operative Strategies in Laparoscopic Surgery, and Weight Loss Surgery.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Globesity Challenge to General Surgery

  • Book Subtitle: A Guide to Strategy and Techniques

  • Editors: Mirto Foletto, Raul J. Rosenthal

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5382-3

  • Publisher: Springer Milano

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Italia 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5381-6Published: 06 May 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5866-8Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-5382-3Published: 17 April 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 246

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: General Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Primary Care Medicine, Diabetes, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Internal Medicine

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