Preoperative Information of the Patient and Psychological Suitability for Bariatric Surgery

ABSTRACT

Obesity is a challenge for the patient itself, the family’s patients the clinical approach, and the surgery team. Also for the society economically, politically, and as a health pandemic illness. Nothing statically has been more for sure in the obesity ill than the complications related. And now in the settings of these new contexts that imply the SARS-COV 19 pandemic complications which means a new wide window that we need to close trying to avoid the fatalities that would be a high cost to pay for everyone. For these reasons and others well known the patients seeking an obesity surgery must be more than ever well informed and with a highly accurate psychological profiling looking the best treatment for each patient in their settings. And avoid cooking recipes. Now it is a challenge for everyone. In this chapter, we are going to boarding the basic information pre-op for those patients, like expectations, possible risk, and complications, and at the same time an accurate psychologist profile for the best surgical bariatric alternatives. This is a revisional literature chapter looking for the different knowledge among the data published around the world and time. © 2021 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.