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then consider those patients with a BMI of 40 to 49 on a case-by-case
basis depending on anesthesia's risk assessment.
For others, it's a game of tug-of-war, the surgeons wanting to push
the BMI limit up, the anesthesia providers wanting to pull it down a
notch. Some have raised their BMI cutoff for an unlikely reason: too
many of their patients exceeded it.
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