HELICAL COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY CAN MEASURE SUBCUTANEOUS, VISCERAL AND TOTAL FAT AREAS?

Background: Abdominal obesity or android obesity, that is, the increase in adipose tissue in the abdominal region, is considered a risk factor for several morbidities. Different ways of quantifying it have been proposed, one method is the measurement of the abdominal fat area by computed tomography.

Aim: To establish correspondence between the groups defined by degree of obesity in relation to the total, subcutaneous and visceral fat area.

ROUX-IN-Y GASTROJEJUNAL BYPASS: WHICH ANESTHETIC TECHNIQUE HAS BEST RESULTS?

Background: Nausea and vomiting groups x moments. As the number of bariatric operations increases, there is a greater interest in knowledge, experience and skills in the operative and anesthetic management of obese people. Anesthetic recovery is an important point in the therapeutic approach and less adverse effects delaying discharge of these patients are necessary to be kept in mind by the surgical team.