Checklist for Dispatchers During an Accident
Dispatcher teams are responsible for receiving and obtaining reliable information, tracking equipments and vehicles, ensuring constant requisite medical supplies and recording important information. A...
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How to choose bariatric protein shakes
Following a bariatric weight loss surgery such as gastric bypass or gastric banding, it is important to ensure you are ingesting enough protein. This aids in the promotion and maintenance of muscle...
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Lap Bands: Pros & Cons
Lap band surgery is a bariatric surgery method involving placing a band on the stomach to reduce food intake. Less invasive than other types of bariatric surgery, lap bands have their benefits and...
View ArticleDuodenal Switch Recovery
The duodenal switch procedure, known in the medical community as the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch, is a weight-loss surgery that involves the removal of part of the stomach and a...
View ArticleHow to Lose Weight After Having the Vertical Sleeve
Medline Plus describes the vertical sleeve as a type of weight loss surgery in which 80 to 85 percent of the stomach is removed. The remaining portion of the stomach is reshaped and stapled into a long...
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How to Qualify for LapBand
Dieting may be an American obsession. Yet according to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control the nation is fatter than ever, with 25.6% of its citizens classified as obese. Obesity...
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What's a LAP-BAND?
The LAP-BAND device is a gastric band manufactured by Allergan. It is used as an alternative to sleeve gastrectomy surgery and gastric bypass surgery to help obese people lose weight by limiting the...
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How to Set Up a Double-Contrast Barium Enema
Barium enemas are used for a number of reasons. The most common reason for this procedure is to check for colorectal cancer. In order for the test to be accurately performed, the patient must be...
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Bariatric Diet Foods
Bariatric surgery is weight-loss surgery. Gastric bypass and lap band surgery are both types of bariatric surgery. This type of surgery restricts the amount of food a person is able to consume, so he...
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About Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery is used to change the anatomy of your digestive system to aid in weight loss. There are different types of Bariatric surgery, but their goal is similar to decrease the amount of food...
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Allergan Lap Banding Instrument List
Bariatric surgery is generally accepted as the best treatment option for adult morbid obesity. Laparoscopic banding involves utilizing several small incisions and a camera to place a band around the...
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How Safe is it to Have a Lap Band After a Kidney Transplant?
Determining how safe it is to have lap band surgery after a kidney transplant is a complicated question. There is little research concerning kidney transplant patients and bariatric surgery. That’s why...
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Medicaid & Gastric Band Surgery
Since February of 2006, gastric band surgery has been covered as a treatment for morbid obesity by Medicaid. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) is the type of gastric banding that Medicaid...
View ArticleDifference Between Lap-Bands
A Lap-Band procedure is a type of gastric banding bariatric or weight-loss surgery. The outpatient operation is a less invasive choice compared to other bariatric procedures. Patients who undergo...
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Gastric Sleeve Bariatric Surgery Recovery
Vertical sleeve gastrectomy, or gastric sleeve surgery, is a weight-loss procedure in which a portion of the stomach is removed in order to limit food intake. The portion of the stomach that remains...
View ArticleSocial Work & Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgeries include adjustable gastric banding, gastric bypass, vertical sleeve gastrectomy and duodenal switch. Doctors generally recommend these operations for patients who need to lose at...
View ArticleHep C & Weight Loss-Surgery
Hepatitis C is a non-curable infection that is transmitted through bodily fluids. Because it affects the liver, some surgeries may not be performed due to the risk of further damaging the liver during...
View ArticleWhat to Eat After a Revision of VBG Weight Loss Surgery
Vertical banded gastric bypass weight-loss surgery (or VBG) is designed to help the patient lose weight by artificially decreasing the size of the stomach through the use of an elastic band to cut off...
View ArticleGastric Bypass Diets to Shrink Your Pouch
Gastric bypass surgery decreases the size of the patient's stomach to a small pouch. It is easy to keep the stomach pouch small following surgery, as the stomach simply cannot handle much. Over time...
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How to Recover From Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery, often referred to as weight loss surgery, is a major operation. In some cases it can take months to recover from it fully to a point where you feel normal again. Following your...
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