You're not a bariatric surgeon, but you need to know how the immediate management of complications of bariatric surgery because they might well come in to your hospital, even if its not a bariatric surgical centre.
In the first of 2 podcasts, Cat Boereboom talks to Sherif Awad about recognition of complications of gastric band and what to do when you see them. You'll also be able to recognise when a band is in the right place and when it has slipped, what a Huber needle is and what to do with it and what to do if you don't have one, port infection and lots more.
Part 2 covers sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass.
Mapped to the General Surgery 2016 syllabus.
Cat Boereboom is a trainee in the East Midlands, UK and Sherif Awad is a consultant bariatric surgeon at the East Midlands Bariatric Institute based at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK