Abstract

Early and uneventful postoperative recovery of morbidly obese patients remains a challenge for anesthesiologists. It could be valuable to titrate the administration of inhaled anesthetic, such as sevoflurane, in morbid obese patients, in order to shorten emergence using bispectral index (BIS) monitoring. It would be a great advantage if BIS permitted a more rapid recovery and less consumption in morbidly obese patients with a high cost inhaled agent. The aim of the study is to show whether the titration of sevoflurane based on the BIS monitoring would allow shortening of recovery time in morbidly obese patients and to evaluate whether BIS monitoring would contribute to reduce the amount of sevoflurane administered while providing an adequate anesthesia.

Post authors

Osama Ibraheim 1, Ahamad Alshaer, Khalid Mazen, Abdelazeem El-Dawlaty, Ahmed Turkistani, Khaled Alkathery, Tariq Al-Zahrani, Abdullah Al-Dohayan, Areej Bukhari