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: Received: 21 August 2024 / Approved: 21 August 2024 / Online: 21 August 2024 (14:24:51 CEST)
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Isaacs Beron, R.; Bruno Cao, V. H.; Carreira, D.; Hurtado, M. Managing bariatric surgery complications at a third level public hospital in Panamá. Preprints2024, 2024081579. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1579.v1
Isaacs Beron, R.; Bruno Cao, V. H.; Carreira, D.; Hurtado, M. Managing bariatric surgery complications at a third level public hospital in Panamá. Preprints 2024, 2024081579. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1579.v1
Isaacs Beron, R.; Bruno Cao, V. H.; Carreira, D.; Hurtado, M. Managing bariatric surgery complications at a third level public hospital in Panamá. Preprints2024, 2024081579. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1579.v1
APA Style
Isaacs Beron, R., Bruno Cao, V. H., Carreira, D., & Hurtado, M. (2024). Managing bariatric surgery complications at a third level public hospital in Panamá. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1579.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Isaacs Beron, R., Daniel Carreira and Mariela Hurtado. 2024 "Managing bariatric surgery complications at a third level public hospital in Panamá" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1579.v1
Abstract
Background: Surgical complications are devastating both for patients and treating surgeons. When these complications occur after bariatric procedures, due to specific characteristics of this population, management, although multidisciplinary should always be led by a surgical team. Methods: We present major complications treated at our general surgery service over a seven -year period. Case series: we present 5 cases that were treated at our service after a bariatric procedure was performed. Two patients were operated at another country and one of them at another service. Three of patients showed perforation and leak related complications. One patient died due to refeeding syndrome complications after revisional surgery. Conclusions: Optimal preoperative evaluations and surgical planning are mandatory for any type of surgery including bariatric procedures, attempting to adequate and well-established surgical techniques extensively described in medical literature is associated with better outcomes. Also is our understanding that easy channels of communication between patients and treating surgeons could avoid delay in detecting and treating life-threatening conditions.
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