Obese patients at high risk of post-surgery complications

Research is revealing the heavy surgical consequences of severe obesity. The study looked at the results of severely obese patients in need of emergency surgery. Of the patients studied, nearly half (40 percent) needed admission to an intensive care unit, and just under one in five (17 percent) did not survive to be discharged home.

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