How to manage bariatric surgery complications for the non bariatric surgeon - part 2

School of Surgery

How to recognise and immediately manage complications of sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass are discussed in the second part of this podcast. Understand why bariatric patients clinical examination might be unreliable, why vomiting or jaundice are danger symptoms which may need emergency intervention, why NSAIDs and smoking are very dangerous in bypass patients and many more things you're going to find very useful when on call or in an exam!
Mapped to the 2016 General Surgery syllabus.
Cat Boereboom is a trainee in surgery in the East Midlands, UK and Sherif Awad is a consultant in bariatric surgery at the East Midlands Bariatric Institute, based at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK