Friday, June 8, 2012Plenary Session - Allied Health and NutritionCo-Chairs: Ms. Tammy Eborall, Ms. Sue Ekserci Preoperative Bariatric AssessmentIn the lasts 25 years our Bariatric team has outlived the time when these surgeries had a bad reputation in the medical community. Of course , It’s no longer the case. Why did it change? Mostly because of the huge improvement of its patients long term results. How did it happen? Better surgeries, better equipment, better preoperative assessment, better perioperative measures and better follow up. But ultimately everything starts with an optimal interdisciplinary patient’s assessment and preparation.. Patient education is the first tool to obtain a well informed ,realistic and ultimately collaborative patient. The team must also scrutinized every aspects of the patient such as medical and surgical history ,psychosocial and financial problems ,nutritional status and habits, cognitive and physical limitations. The patients physical and mental preparation are also included in this preoperative assessment since these steps are privileged moments to interact and evaluate the patient’s in a follow up setting. All these elements interlink to help the bariatric team to determines the patient’s risk- benefit ratio and ultimately select the best procedure. Unfortunately there is no absolute guidelines to select the patients or the surgery and patient’s assessment always raises questions and issues within the interdisciplinary team and an experienced team’s guidance can sometimes be make the difference. Learning Objectives Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
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