Looking Forward in 2012: ASMBS and ACS Join to Create a Unified Centers of Excellence Program
January 2012
Dear Readers of Bariatric Times,
I hope you had a good end-of-the-year celebration in 2011 and I wish you all a great 2012.
In this first 2012 issue of Bariatric Times, we present another installment in our special section “Surgical Pearls: Techniques in Bariatric Surgery.” This month, my group at Cleveland Clinic Florida describes the linear stapler gastrojejunostomny for gastric bypass. This should be a good complement to previous issues, which featured experts Drs. Alan Wittgrove and Kelvin Higa demonstrating the circular stapler and the hand-sewn technique. Read the rest of this article »
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Laparoscopic Antecolic-antegastric Roux-en-Y Gastro-jejunal Anastomosis using a Combined Linear Stapler and Hand-sewn Technique
January 2012
Surgical Pearls: Techniques in Bariatric Surgery
Column Editors: Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS, and Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS
This Month’s Technique: Laparoscopic Antecolic-antegastric Roux-en-Y Gastro-jejunal Anastomosis using a Combined Linear Stapler and Hand-sewn Technique Read the rest of this article »
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Does Intraoperative Gastric Band Adjustment to a Targeted Stoma Size Improve Weight Loss? One-year Results of a Feasibility Trial
January 2012
by Robert G. Snow DO, FACOS, and John O’Dea, PhD
Dr. Snow is from the American Institute of Gastric Banding, Hurst, Texas. Mr. O’Dea is from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, and an employee of Crospon Ltd., Galway, Ireland. Read the rest of this article »
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Unusual and Difficult Hernias in the Obese Population: Suprapubic and Parastomal
January 2012
The Hole in the Wall with Samuel Szomstein, MD, FACS
This Month’s Topic: Unusual and Difficult Hernias in the Obese Population:
Suprapubic and Parastomal
This Month’s Featured Experts: Jonathan Slone, MD, MBA, MPH, and Karan Bath, MD
Clinical Fellows, the Bariatric Institute and Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Weston, Florida Read the rest of this article »
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Ed Mason at Large
January 2012
This ongoing column is dedicated to sharing with readers the life and experiences of Dr. Edward Mason.
A Message from Column Editor
Tracy Martinez, RN, BSN, CBN
Happy New Year to all! We are once again delighted to “bring” Dr. Ed Mason to you. This interactive column has already stimulated many positive comments. I hope you will participate in dialogue by submitting questions so we can all enrich our professional knowledge and understand the roots of our specialty. Read the rest of this article »
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Five Minutes with Kerrie Warne: Data-Driven Decisions Drive Performance Improvement—and a Whole Lot More
January 2012
In this installment of “Five Minutes with…” guest interviewer
Kim Goin talks to Kerrie Warne, Director of St. Alexius NewStart Program at St. Alexius Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, about how she used data-driven performance techniques to evaluate and improve her bariatric program.
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Development of the International Bariatric Club: A Worldwide Internet Network for Bariatric Surgeons
January 2012
by Haris A. Khwaja, MD, PhD; Marius A. Nedelcu, MD; Manoel Galvão Neto, MD; Mervyn Deitel, MD;
Philip R. Schauer, MD; and Tomasz G. Rogula, MD, PhD Read the rest of this article »
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