So you have made up your mind and you are about to start the pre-op diet. You have all the foods lined up and your bariatric vitamins are set up and ready to go. It’s a very exciting time and as you embark on the pre-op diet, you begin to think about what comes post-op? I...
patients, and sequential compression boots are used during surgery.Another popular diet medication, orlistat, blocks diges- tion and absorption of dietary fat by binding lipases in theDespite attempts at warming and humidifying the CO2, post-operative discomfort in the PACU is common following lap-...
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Surgical postop care included blood work and diet restrictions with a discharge when oral diet was well tolerated. Patients follow-up included 4 outpatient visits the first year then annually; complete metabolic screening was done at 3 months, again at one year and annually thereafter. The ...