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General Surgery

Morbid Obesity and Its Surgical Treatment

Built from Maingot's Abdominal Operations

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9 sections · 184 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this topic covers

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Obesity as a disease

    How obesity is measured, how common it is, and what it does to health

    • Body mass index and what it measures
    • Scale of the obesity problem
    • Spread of obesity to Asia and Africa
    • Body mass index categories of obesity
    • Severe obesity and the age of the guidelines
    • Obesity as a disease rather than a habit
    • Cost of obesity and the insurance response
    • Comorbid disease as the main threat
    • Medical diseases associated with obesity
    • Neurologic, metabolic and neoplastic disease in obesity
    • How obesity shortens life
    • Severe obesity in the United States by age and sex
    • Reading the age and sex table
    • Cancer risk and why patients seek surgery
    • Causes of obesity under investigation
    • Fat distribution and the gut's role in glucose control

    16 slides

  3. 03

    Medical therapy, selection and preparation

    Why diets fail, who qualifies for surgery, and how patients are prepared

    • Role of diet, exercise and lifestyle change
    • Patients who have never dieted
    • Surgery as one part of treatment
    • What makes bariatric surgery work long term
    • Criteria for offering bariatric surgery
    • How insurance shapes the choice of operation
    • Access to bariatric surgery
    • Two areas of preoperative preparation
    • Support networks and the family

    9 slides

  4. 04

    Choosing between the operations

    Restriction, malabsorption, and which patient suits which procedure

    • Bariatric operations grouped by mechanism
    • Risk and weight loss across the four operations
    • Selecting patients for the adjustable band
    • Weight limits and the dieter's mentality
    • Selecting patients for gastric bypass
    • Why gastric bypass is the commonest operation
    • Diabetes and reflux as reasons to choose bypass
    • Contraindications and the laparoscopic advantage
    • Selecting patients for sleeve gastrectomy
    • Cover, candidates and the origin of the sleeve
    • Concerns about the sleeve
    • Selecting patients for duodenal switch
    • Who is offered a duodenal switch

    13 slides

  5. 05

    Adjustable gastric banding

    An inflatable ring around the top of the stomach, tightened in clinic

    • What the adjustable gastric band is
    • Preparation and getting into the abdomen
    • Port positions for adjustable gastric banding
    • Dissection at the angle of His and pars flaccida
    • Grasper passed behind the stomach
    • Band pulled into place behind the stomach
    • Buckling the band into its ring
    • Fundal imbrication sutures over the band
    • Securing the reservoir to the fascia
    • Priming the band, then discharge and diet
    • Adjusting the band
    • Excess weight loss after banding and gastric bypass
    • Reading the curves and what predicts success
    • Weight loss and diabetes after banding
    • Complications of gastric banding
    • Prolapse and slippage
    • Band prolapse from suspicion to treatment
    • Prolapsed gastric band on plain film and contrast study
    • Treating band prolapse and erosion
    • Oesophageal dilation
    • Port, tubing and overfilling problems
    • Poor weight loss and nutrition after banding

    22 slides

  6. 06

    Sleeve gastrectomy

    Turning the stomach into a narrow tube by removing its greater curvature

    • What sleeve gastrectomy is
    • Port placement for sleeve gastrectomy
    • Dividing the greater curvature vessels
    • Choosing the bougie size
    • Stapling the stomach alongside the bougie
    • Avoiding a leak at the top of the sleeve
    • The completed gastric sleeve
    • Hospital stay and diet after sleeve gastrectomy
    • Follow-up and vitamins after the sleeve
    • Weight loss and the unanswered question
    • The lesson of vertical banded gastroplasty
    • Death rate, complications and leaks after the sleeve
    • Narrowing and nutrition after the sleeve

    13 slides

  7. 07

    Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

    A small pouch joined to a limb of jejunum: the most performed operation

    • Steps of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
    • Positioning for gastric bypass
    • Arms, antibiotics and skin preparation
    • Preventing clots in the veins
    • Vena cava filters and the state of the evidence
    • Entering the abdomen in the severely obese
    • Port positions for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
    • Adjusting the ports during the operation
    • Retracting the liver and finding the ligament of Treitz
    • Stapling the proximal jejunum
    • Dividing the mesentery of the Roux limb
    • Penrose drain sewn to the end of the Roux limb
    • The two limbs and how long the Roux limb should be
    • Stapling the enteroenterostomy
    • Closing the stapler defect of the enteroenterostomy
    • Closing the mesenteric defect below the join
    • Retrocolic versus antecolic Roux limb
    • Passing the Roux limb through the mesentery
    • When the Roux limb will not pass
    • First stapler firing across the lesser curvature
    • Stapling upward to complete the gastric pouch
    • Suture line approximating Roux limb to gastric pouch
    • Stapler placement for the gastrojejunostomy
    • Closing and testing the anastomosis
    • Linear versus circular stapler
    • Triple stitch securing the Roux limb and mesentery
    • Finishing the operation
    • When an open operation is needed
    • Incision, exposure and how the open operation differs
    • Drains, oversewing and gastrostomy
    • Fluids and early walking after gastric bypass
    • Feeding, pain and wound care
    • Oxygen and sleep apnoea after surgery
    • Discharge and follow-up visits
    • What the later follow-up visits cover
    • Weight loss after gastric bypass
    • Rise in gastric bypass operations performed each year
    • Why the numbers rose and what it did to the results
    • Effect of gastric bypass on obesity-related disease
    • Reading the comorbidity results
    • Diabetes after gastric bypass
    • Gallstones after rapid weight loss
    • Removing the gallbladder at the same operation
    • Recommendations on the gallbladder and on reflux
    • Death rate after gastric bypass
    • Bariatric surgery outcomes in a national quality database
    • Morbidity and complications during the operation
    • Recognising an anastomotic leak
    • How a leak presents and how it is treated
    • Vomiting in the first week
    • Distended distal stomach on computed tomography
    • Internal hernia after gastric bypass
    • Swirling mesentery on computed tomography
    • Diagnosing and reducing an internal hernia
    • Narrowing of the gastrojejunostomy
    • Marginal ulcer and its causes
    • Diagnosing and treating marginal ulcer
    • When acid washes back onto the anastomosis
    • Why nutrients are missed after bypass
    • Other deficiencies to watch
    • Supplements after gastric bypass

    61 slides

  8. 08

    Biliopancreatic diversion and duodenal switch

    The malabsorptive operations: most weight loss, most complications

    • Origins of the malabsorptive operations
    • Who these operations suit
    • Port placement for laparoscopic duodenal switch
    • How biliopancreatic diversion is built
    • Completed biliopancreatic diversion
    • The lesson of the common channel
    • How the duodenal switch differs
    • Sleeve gastrectomy component of the duodenal switch
    • Completed duodenal switch
    • Early care and diarrhoea after the switch
    • Nutrition and supplements after the switch
    • Follow-up after duodenal switch
    • Weight loss after duodenal switch
    • Complications after duodenal switch
    • Vitamin deficiency and protein malnutrition

    15 slides

  9. 09

    Revisional surgery and special situations

    Reoperation, pregnancy, age and weight limits, and endoscopic approaches

    • Principles of revisional surgery
    • Two reasons for revision
    • Lessons from abandoned operations
    • Revising vertical banded gastroplasty and the band
    • Revising gastric bypass
    • Why narrowing the anastomosis does not work
    • The verdict on revisional surgery
    • Pregnancy after bariatric surgery
    • Bariatric surgery in adolescents
    • Bariatric surgery in older patients
    • Upper weight limits and the logistics of extreme weight
    • Endoscopic approaches to weight loss
    • Key points: the disease
    • Key points: choosing the operation
    • Key points: staying safe after surgery
    • Key points: what decides long-term success
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    • Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12th Edition

    34 slides