Main description:

With obesity levels continuing to rise despite efforts in diet, exercise, and medical management, the focus has now turned to surgery to help combat the obesity epidemic. The operation is just the beginning, and there can be many different complications and side effects associated with weight loss surgery.

Bariatric Surgery: What Every Provider Needs to Know takes a multidisciplinary team approach to maximize the patient's weight loss and to minimize complications, from patient selection to postoperative care. This book was written for any healthcare providers or students involved with bariatric surgical patients to provide them with the important information needed to manage their patient.

Drs. R. Armour Forse and Caroline M. Apovian and more than 50 contributors have designed Bariatric Surgery: What Every Provider Needs to Know to provide practical information for non-surgeons and non-nutrition experts who are involved in the care of a patient undergoing bariatric surgery and makes the concepts easy to understand and to apply when caring for a patient with obesity.

Bariatric Surgery: What Every Provider Needs to Know covers the fundamental issues that need to be addressed with the overall care of the surgical patient for a multidisciplinary team, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants, gastroenterology residents, dieticians, and medical students.

Some topics covered include:

Adolescent obesity and weight loss surgery
Various surgical procedures such as gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, and gastric bypass
Anesthetic issues in the patient with obesity undergoing surgery
Bariatric surgery and the elderly
Immediate postoperative complications
Medical management of the patient after bariatric surgery
Psychological issues in the bariatric surgery patient

Contents:

Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
Contributing Authors
Preface
Foreword by George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD, MS, FACS

Section I General
Chapter 1 The Obesity Epidemic
Walter J. Pories, MD, FACS; Dustin M. Bermudez, MD; and Emily R. Cunningham, BA
Chapter 2 Adolescent Obesity and Weight Loss Surgery
Wendy Jo Svetanoff, MD; R. Armour Forse, MD, CM, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM, FASMBS; and Caroline M. Apovian, MD
Chapter 3 Medical Treatment of Obesity
W. Scott Butsch, MD, MSc and Nadia N. Ahmad, MD, MPH

Section II Surgical Issues and Procedures
Chapter 4 Why Surgery?
Bruce M. Wolfe, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Chapter 5 Choice of Bariatric Surgery
Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD; Elizabeth Colsen, MD; and Daniel B. Leslie, MD
Chapter 6 Gastric Banding
Christine Ren Fielding, MD
Chapter 7 Sleeve Gastrectomy
Stacy A. Brethauer, MD and Philip R. Schauer, MD
Chapter 8 Gastric Bypass
John MagaNa Morton, MD, MPH, FACS, FASMBS and Natalia Leva, MD
Chapter 9 Biliopancreatic Diversion With Duodenal Switch
Mustafa Hussain, MD and Alfons Pomp, MD, FACS, FRCSC
Chapter 10 Other Surgical Procedures
Jaisa Olasky, MD and Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS
Chapter 11 Preoperative Evaluation of the Patient Undergoing Bariatric Surgery
Andrew S. Wu, MD and Daniel M. Herron, MD
Chapter 12 Anesthetic Issues in the Patient With Obesity Undergoing Surgery
Eugene Kim, MD and Stephanie B. Jones, MD
Chapter 13 Current Concepts in Perioperative Management of Adolescents Undergoing Bariatric Surgery
Kathleen B. Hrovat, MS, RD, LD; Linda Kollar, RN, MSN, CBN; and Thomas H. Inge, MD, PhD
Chapter 14 Bariatric Surgery and the Elderly
Oliver A. Varban, MD, FACS
Chapter 15 Metabolic Surgery for Diabetes
Ashwin Soni, MD, BSc; Alpana Shukla, MD, MRCP(UK); and Francesco Rubino, MD
Chapter 16 Immediate Postoperative Complications
Charles E. Thompson III, MD; Yaniv Cozacov, MD; Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD, PhD; and Raul J. Rosenthal, MD
Chapter 17 Long-Term Complications of Bariatric Surgery
Judy Y. R. Chen, MD, FACS and Scott A. Shikora, MD, FACS

Section III Medical Issues Post Bariatric Surgery
Chapter 18 Nutritional Consequences Following Bariatric Surgery
Ashley Cuellar, MD; Pradeep K. Pallati, MBBS, FACS; and Amanda Powell, MD
Chapter 19 Medical Management of the Patient After Bariatric Surgery: Reevaluating Diabetes
Sangeeta Rao Kashyap, MD
Chapter 20 Hypertension Following Bariatric Surgery: Pathophysiology, Follow-Up, and Treatment
Venkata M. Alla, MD and Dennis Esterbrooks, MD
Chapter 21 Medical Management of the Patient After Bariatric Surgery: Reevaluating Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Dyslipidemia
Lalita Khaodhiar, MD and Karen C. McCowen, MB, MRCPI
Chapter 22 Medical Management of the Patient After Bariatric Surgery: Reevaluating Sleep Apnea
Lee E. Morrow, MD, MSc
Chapter 23 Endoscopy in the Bariatric Patient
Nitin Kumar, MD and Christopher C. Thompson, MD, MSc, FACG, FASGE
Chapter 24 Imaging of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Bariatric Surgery
Johanna Schubert, MD and Attila Csordas, MD
Chapter 25 The Esophagus, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, and Bariatric Surgery
Tommy H. Lee, MD and Kalyana Nandipati, MD
Chapter 26 Psychological Issues in the Bariatric Surgery Patient
Stephanie Sogg, PhD and Kelli E. Friedman, PhD

Financial Disclosures
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