Bariatrics

Diabetes Mellitus Type II There are two type of diabetes, type 1 and type 2. Diabetes mellitus type 2 is affects 29 million Americans, 86 million are living with pre-diabetes and it is the seventh leading cause of death (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Diabetes type 2 has almost doubled in the past two decades and it is more common than type 1 diabetes. Type I diabetes patients do not produce insulin but type 2-diabetes produce insulin but not enough for the body’s needs.…

for Bariatric Surgery 2015, pg. 2). Fad diets are more dangerous in some ways, as they often remove main food groups, which are necessary for normal physiological function. Side effects of fad diets include dehydration, fatigue, nausea, headaches and constipation, as the body is not absorbing the nutrients it needs daily. Significant lifestyle aspects, such as diet, exercise and sleep, need to be altered for real, long-lasting effects, and prevention of severe obesity (The Centre for Bariatric…

Twenty-two percent of the patients begin to have complications before they even leave the hospital. Bariatric surgery is inviting and seems safe; the advertisements and success stories seem to sell it to the people that are ashamed of their obesity. People are unable to pass up the opportunity of having the body they are promised, but the eye can be deceiving…

The Joint Commission has instituted a number of goals nationally with the aim to improve patients’ safety. The goals selected look at areas that are of concern in the healthcare industry, particularly how it affect patients’ safety and make recommendations how to reduce if not eradicated these. Using the evidence-based prevention measures instituted by the Joint Commission both hospitals, Holy Cross Hospital located in Silver Spring, Maryland and Shady Grove Hospital situated in, Rockville,…

clinic than the OR. I want to be in and out with everything done as best as it can be. As a full time General Surgeon (doing general, vascular, and Bariatric surgery), this has allowed me to be much more efficient. I no longer am here until 10 or 11 at night trying to get all the paper work done for the next day. The multi-page pre-cert letters for the Bariatric patients automatically compile with information that I need in them. You do it once and don’t have to do it again.” (General Surgery…

However, MWH is not just for women and infants the hospital offers a full-service emergency department and services that include imaging, cardiology, orthopaedic, surgery, lupus, gastro-enterology, colorectal surgery, pulmonology, urology, and bariatric surgery. Not only does MWH serve the patients within the hospital, the facility also serves the community as an avid proponent of community health…

obesity, and cancer management. Specific health behaviors such as eating and physical activity can be targeted with ACT treatment as well. Weineland, Arvidsson, Kakoulidis, and Dahl (2012) demonstrated that a brief ACT intervention improved post bariatric surgery patients’ eating disordered behaviors, body dissatisfaction, and acceptance of weight related thoughts and feeling significantly more than those who completed treatment as usual. Similarly, a recent study showed that brief, electronic…

Afshin Nasseri Afshin Nasseri (born 24 April 1963 in Tehran, Iran) is an Internist. He has been practicing at several medical centers and clinics in USA and got training for Primary care, Emergency, & ICU care . In 2014, he received “On-time Promptness Award”. Nasseri frequently takes part in free healthcare programs which are globally conducted by GRACE Cares including the Lucknow project which is held in India yearly. Contribution in Public health Afshin Nasseri and his family members…

Lap Band Surgery a bariatric surgery procedure was accepted by the FDA in 2001 and profited expanding attractiveness in the heaviness decrease world from that issue forward. The method itself is minimally invasive as lap band surgeons enter the stomach district by little incisions…

The US FDA has green lighted a new weight loss device which will enable obese people to drain 30 percent of their stomach contents after eating through a surgically placed tube in the stomach. The device named AspireAssist, developed by Aspire Bariatric, consists of a tube inserted into the patient’s stomach through a small incision in the abdomen. The tube connects to a port valve which lies just outside the skin of the abdomen. It remains in place throughout the duration of treatment,…