Overview
The purpose of this study is to To determine the effect of warm and humidified (WH) carbon dioxide (CO2) on post-operative pain/analgesia requirement in patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- elective bariatric primary or revision procedures and hiatal hernia repair procedures for all indications.
Exclusion Criteria:
- emergency surgery, reoperation within 30 days
- patients who are taking pain medications (narcotics) daily preoperatively for whatever reason
- history of narcotics addiction
- paraplegic and quadriplegic patients
- dementia or altered mental status
- patients on steroids
- pregnant women
- psychiatric patients
- minors
- unable to give informed consent