Hello Team Yellow Members,
Great presentation. Your team were able to compare and create sample replacement menus with liquid items were more health conscious for the patient, who is a candidate to receive a type of bariatric surgery.
Before reading your team’s presentation, I was not familiar the term “bariatric”. I thought it was a health condition, rather than a collection of weight loss procedures. Reading more into your team’s presentation, I realized that the medical procedure is the proper name of weight loss surgeries -- gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, or gastric band surgeries. It is good that your team displayed the nutrition for patients who undergo this type of procedure. Because I thought that they eat healthier meals (like solid or soft foods) but it would be portioned into smaller meals. I didn’t know that they will have to be on complete fluids until their surgery and few days following their surgery. I’m familiar with the medical procedure due to watching a lot of medical documentaries such as ‘My 600 lb. Life’ that shows on the TLC channel. …show more content…
As mentioned Conaty et al (2016), the reason why candidates have to be on a liquid diet is to reduce the amount of fat surrounding the liver and spleen. The authors continued the discussion by stating a patient who has a large liver prevents the appointed surgeon from viewing organs during the surgery. A massive liver is unsafe for the surgeon to continue with the
Great presentation. Your team were able to compare and create sample replacement menus with liquid items were more health conscious for the patient, who is a candidate to receive a type of bariatric surgery.
Before reading your team’s presentation, I was not familiar the term “bariatric”. I thought it was a health condition, rather than a collection of weight loss procedures. Reading more into your team’s presentation, I realized that the medical procedure is the proper name of weight loss surgeries -- gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, or gastric band surgeries. It is good that your team displayed the nutrition for patients who undergo this type of procedure. Because I thought that they eat healthier meals (like solid or soft foods) but it would be portioned into smaller meals. I didn’t know that they will have to be on complete fluids until their surgery and few days following their surgery. I’m familiar with the medical procedure due to watching a lot of medical documentaries such as ‘My 600 lb. Life’ that shows on the TLC channel. …show more content…
As mentioned Conaty et al (2016), the reason why candidates have to be on a liquid diet is to reduce the amount of fat surrounding the liver and spleen. The authors continued the discussion by stating a patient who has a large liver prevents the appointed surgeon from viewing organs during the surgery. A massive liver is unsafe for the surgeon to continue with the