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Path to Surgery
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Published: May 29, 2007
Updated: Feb. 2, 2011
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The path to surgery typically takes two to three months after your first clinic visit. Each individual is carefully evaluated for all related medical conditions. This often requires special studies and occasionally consultations from medical specialists.
Only after we are completely satisfied that weight loss surgery is right for you and that both you and we are fully aware of associated risks will we proceed with the scheduling of surgery.
Learn more about the first steps toward weight loss surgery.
Patient Manual Index
- Introduction
- Questions to Ask Your Insurance Company
- Your Health Care Team
- Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
- Adjustable Gastric Banding Procedure
- Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Duodenal Switch
- Revisional Procedures
- Path to Surgery
- The First Clinic Visit
- The Preoperative Surgical Clinic Visit
- The Preoperative Educational Clinic Visit
- Preparation Instructions for Surgery
- Day of Surgery and Postoperative Stay
- Hospital Course Following a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
- Hospital Course Following an Adjustable Gastric Banding Procedure
- Post Surgery Follow-up Care
- Potential Complications of Surgery
