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Spotlight on Technology July–August 2023

Category: Bariatric Surgery
Walter Pories’s Cartoon Corner
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Introducing a New Column—“Raising the Standard”

Dear Friends and Readers, Welcome to the July issue of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times. This month we are pleased to introduce a new column called “Raising the Standard,” created

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New Technology on the Horizon—“Bariatric Surgery in a Pill”

Dear Colleagues, Early last month, I came across an interesting headline—”Surgery in a Pill” Developed to Mimic Benefits of Bariatric Surgery on Type 2 Diabetes.1 In this article, researchers at

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Alarming Increase in Malpractice Claims Related to Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Post Bariatric Surgery: An Alert to Monitor for Thiamine Deficiency

by Eric DeMaria, MD, FACS, FASMBS, and Christa Trigilio-Black, PA-C Dr. DeMaria is Bariatric Surgeon, Bon Secours General Surgery at St. Mary’s Hospital, Richmond, Virginia; President-elect, American Society for Metabolic

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Quantitative Versus Qualitative Monitoring of Neuromuscular Blockade in Patients with Morbid Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: Differences in Residual Neuromuscular Block and Respiratory Complications

by P. Ziemann-Gimmel, MD; Allison A. Goldfarb, DNP, CRNA; Meghan Connelly, MSN, CRNA; Ahmed Bata, MD; Robert Marema, MD; and Dmitry Tumin, PhD Drs. Ziemann-Gimmel and Bata and Mses. Goldfarb

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Raising the Standard

by Anthony T. Petrick, MD, FACS, FASMBS, and Dominick Gadaleta, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Petrick is Quality Director, Geisinger Surgical Institute; Director of Bariatric and Foregut Surgery, Geisinger Health System,

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Meeting Highlights: SAGES 2018

by Col. Robert Lim, MD, FACS, FASMBS Col. Robert Lim, MD, FACS, FASMBS, is Associate Professor of Surgery, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Funding: No funding was provided for

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Walter Pories’s Cartoon Corner
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News and Notes on the Latest Issue of BT

A Message from Dr. John M. Morton John M. Morton, MD, MPH, FACS, FASMBS, Clinical Editor, Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times; Chief of the Section of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive

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Weight Bias in a Weight Management Program? You Bet

A Message from Dr. Christopher Still Christopher Still, DO, FACN, FACP, Co-Clinical Editor, Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times; Medical Director for the Center for Nutrition and Weight Management, and Director

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