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Spotlight on Technology December 2024

Spotlight on Technology July–August 2023

Category: Bariatric Surgery
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

Physician Compensation 2011: How Much am I Worth?

by Bruce Maller; Robin Blackstone, MD, FACS, FASMBS; and Jaime Ponce, MD, FACS, FASMBS

NewStart Surgical Weight Management Program at St. Alexius Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

by Kerrie Warne, Director, NewStart, St. Alexius Hospital Acknowledgment: The author would like to thank Ms. Stephanie Stemmler, media liason for St. Alexius Hospital, for her assistance with the preparation

American Heart Association States Bariatric Surgery Has Benefits that May Outweigh Hazards

Dear Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times fans: I’d like to start this editorial by briefly mentioning two articles on obesity and its treatment. The first article by Poirier et al[1]

Therapeutic Treatment Options for Osteoporosis in the Surgical Weight Loss Population

by Siggi Ming, MS, ARNP, NP-C, and Russell S. Gornichec, MD, FACS Ms. Ming and Dr. Gornichec are both from the Weight Loss Center of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. financial

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

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

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

Mechanisms of Metabolic Bone Disease in Bariatric Surgery Patients

This ongoing column is dedicated to providing evidence-based bites of information for the clinician on nutritional considerations in the bariatric patient. This Month’s Contributor: Liz Goldenberg, MPH, RD, CDN Ms.