Bariatric Surgery Complications and Emergencies
This book provides a concise, focused and clinically relevant summary of complications and emergencies related to bariatric surgery. The first section of the text addresses general complications related to anesthesia and the stress of surgery, including i
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Bariatric Surgery Complications and Emergencies
Daniel M. Herron Editor
Bariatric Surgery Complications and Emergencies
Editor Daniel M. Herron Department of Surgery Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-27112-5 ISBN 978-3-319-27114-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27114-9
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Preface
The idea for this book germinated after a very brief session at the 2013 annual meeting of SAGES (the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons) in Baltimore, Maryland. The focus of the session was to briefly summarize bariatric surgery and its postoperative complications that may present to the emergency room. The target audience for the session was not necessarily the bariatric surgeon but rather the general surgeon who may be on call for that emergency room and who may be called to evaluate and manage the patient in the absence of a more specialized bariatric surgeon. The session was very brief, only 90 min long. Because the session included pediatric emergencies as well, only 45 min were available to summarize the entire spectrum of bariatric emergencies. However brief, the session focused our attention on the fact that there existed no summary or textbook, either for the general surgeon or the bariatric specialist, that focused primarily on bariatric complications and emergencies. Given the continually increasing number of bariatric operations performed in the United States, we felt that the need for such a text was real. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery estimates that 158,000 bariatric operations were performed in 2011, 173,000 in 2012, and 179,
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