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Morbid Obesity Pharmacology in Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia Coffee Break

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The Effects of Body Composition on Pharmacokinetics

There's a diagram for this, isn't it, that you want to show? Yeah, might as well show this diagram. And what we'll do is for those who are listening on the podcast and don't have that visual representation, we'll actually put this in the post. So here it is, you can see linearly total body weight, lean body weight kind of plateauing off in fat weight. Not a good way to build muscle now. Get on the protein. I thought I might also add that, you know, these changed body compartments really affect the pharmacokinetics of drugs because now you suddenly go to change where your hydrophilic and lipophilic agents will

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