Category: Departments
Keeping the Bariatric Patient’s Skin Intact
This CE activity is expired. by ‘Lissa Clark, RN, BSN, MSN, CNE, and Joyce M. Black, PhD, RN, CWCN, FAAN Dr. Black is Associate Professor of Nursing, Department of Adult Health and Illness, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska. Ms. Clark is Instructor of Nursing, Department of Adult Health and Illness, University of Nebraska […]
The Hole in the Wall with Samuel Szomstein, MD, FACS
Dedicated to providing a venue for interactive exchange of ideas, interesting topics, and surgical pearls from experts in repair of abdominal wall defects as they relate to bariatric surgery
Maintaining Dignity of Patients with Morbid Obesity in the Hospital Setting
This CE activity is expired. by Shirley A. Thomas, RN, MPA, and Mary Lee-Fong, RN-C, MSN Ms. Thomas is the nurse manager of the Vascular and GI Surgery and Telemetry Unit and Bariatric Consultant at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. She serves on the National Association of Bariatrics Nurses Board. Ms. Lee-Fong is […]
ASMBS Foundation News and Update—April 2011
by Kelvin Higa, MD, FACS Dr. Higa is President of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Foundation; Clinical Professor in Surgery, University of California San Francisco, Fresno; and Director, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Fresno, California.
Updating Criteria for Weight Loss Surgery
by Richard J. Joseph, BS; George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD; and Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS Mr. Joseph and Dr. Blackburn are from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Jones is from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts.
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