Surgeons Discuss Link between Obesity and Surgical Complications

The largest multicenter retrospective analysis to date linking obesity and surgical outcomes is shedding new light on complications and the opportunities for preoperative patient management. Watch Drs. Robert A. Meguid and Anthony T. Petrick discuss harnessing the power of the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program® database to examine outcomes in obese populations that were largely underpowered in prior studies.

Read more about obesity and surgical outcomes in an October Bulletin feature article.