Emergency Department Management of Patients With Complications of Bariatric Surgery

Points and Pearls Excerpt

• Bariatric surgery procedures are being performed more frequently due both to their success in sus-tained weight loss and improvements in comorbidities associated with obesity.
• Bariatric surgical procedures are classified as restrictive, malabsorptive, or a combination of those.
• In 2017, 59.4% of all bariatric procedures per-formed in the United States were sleeve gastrectomies, a primarily restrictive procedure.
• Due to the prevalence of comorbid diseases amomong obese patients, there is an increased risk of postoperative myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism after surgery.
• There is an increased risk of self-harm emergencies after bariatric surgery, mostly in patients with known psychiatric comorbidities.

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