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Risks Associated With Bariatric Surgery For Obesity

Posted by Admin on Monday, January 18, 2010 - 07:50 PM

Serious consideration should be given to the co-morbidities affecting weight classes of obesity, morbid obesity, and super obesity. Secondary disorders of related biological systems urge bariatric surgery almost on their own strength. Argument supports bariatric surgery to arrest co-morbidities underlying obesity before organ systems can suffer additional irreversible damage.

Patients indicative of compliance with procedural requirements, especially in the postoperative phase of caloric intake control, will need observant nursing attendance to monitor for surgical aftereffects such as sleep apnea and heparin complications. Considerable potential for side effects such as glucose fluctuation and nutritional behavior such as hunger perception and diet and lifestyle changes exists.

Nurses considering these therapies as career paths are urged to play both a "coaching" role on the psychological recovery side, and maintain a medical "weather eye" on health conditions at the same time. The postsurgical bariatric surgical patient is a demanding patient for nursing attendants.

A psychosocial program of pre-operative and postoperative preparation requires nursing attendance on multiple levels of medical monitoring, psychological observation via dialogue and attendance, and follow-up to note any symptoms of depression, negative perception of self, and lwo quality of life from removal from antidepressant medications.

Additional consideration to nurse-assisted recovery and nursing approaches to bolster mental and psychological support according to nursing models are suggested. Due to social associations of obesity and surgery, postoperative nursing support for recovery and ongoing obesity avoidance/recurrence is strongly recommended. A financial model of treating psychologically screened, informed and motivated obese patients for reduction in future medical costs is well sketched and fully represented in terms of current systems of medical care.

Diabetes, hypertension, and overall health in women such as poor reproductive health can recommend the operation via vertical band, malabsorptive conversions of existing gastric processes, and a hybrid of both applications of treatment for clinical obesity. Terms such as Body Mass Index (BMI) and data defining clinical case study conditions are readily available from the canon for reference in the usual manner. Patient quality of life overrides any consideration that bariatric surgery is elective for cosmetic reasons and stands without primary health benefit.

Authors seek to identify and specify potentially damaged areas of the body in attendance with obesity, morbid obesity, and super obesity weight qualifiers as indicative of a worsening medical condition. Authors persuade the reader that gastric bariatric surgery is a qualified medical necessity seeking to improve not only ongoing weight management but to arrest co-morbidity incidence. The underlying assumption of these authors is that other means than botanical or herbal cures, prayer, alternative medicine, or unauthorized drug use would be feasible or of any use to ongoing patient health or obesity conditions at all.