This book provides a concise focused and clinically relevant summary of complications and
emergencies related to bariatric surgery. The first section of the text addresses general
complications related to anesthesia and the stress of surgery including issues such as deep
vein thrombosis pulmonary embolism hemorrhage pneumonia and cardiac complications.
Additionally this section addresses the workup of the bariatric patient with abdominal pain.
The second portion of the text focuses on gastric bypass and sleeve-specific complications
including staple line and anastomotic leaks internal hernia marginal ulceration GI
obstruction hernia formation and gallstone disease. The third portion of the book examines
metabolic nutritional and psychological complications after bariatric surgery. The text also
covers management of weight loss failure. Bariatric Surgery Complications and Emergencies
serves as a very useful resource for physicians and surgeons who are involved in any parts of
evaluation or management of bariatric patients suffering from postoperative complications or
emergencies including bariatric surgeons who perform these operations on a regular basis
non-bariatric general surgeons who cover such patients when on-call surgical trainees and
primary care physicians.
