Please refer to your discharge instructions or your “Patient Education Booklet For Weight Loss Surgery” following surgery. Please hold on to it and refer to the relevant pages for the following:

Diet instructions:

• List of problems that you need to call the clinic about (and those you do not)
• Answers to common questions
• Follow up appointments (at least three weeks, three months, six months, and 12 months, plus yearly thereafter)

Note: Upon discharge you must call the clinic to arrange these appointments. As a reminder, enter the dates on page 33 of the patient education booklet.

The Weight Loss Surgery Clinic will follow you for the first year and thereafter as you wish. Eventually your family physician can monitor your care.

If you move or change your phone number, please call the clinic so we can update your records and contact your new physician.

If you have any concerns or questions between scheduled visits, you should call the clinic:

• Durham: 919-470-7000
• Raleigh: 919-862-2715

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