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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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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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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by Robin L. Blackstone, MD, FACS, FASMBS Read the rest of this article »

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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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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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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.

by Kim Goin and Kerrie Warne Read the rest of this article »

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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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