Gastric Bypass Surgery Malpractice
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What is Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Gastric-Bypass surgery is an invasive surgical procedure involving the stapling, banding, or rerouting of the 
stomach and small intestines so that food and nutrition bypass (skip around) the usual physiological route that food naturally travels through the body (see image to left). The most commonly performed type of gastric bypass surgery procedure is known as the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery procedure. The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery procedure involves the surgical creation of a small stomach pouch out of a portion of the stomach, and then attaching the small stomach pouch directly to the small intestine, thereby bypassing a large part of the stomach and duodenum (see image below). Not only is the newly surgically created stomach pouch too small to hold large amounts of food, but by skipping the duodenum, the body's absorption of dietary fat is reduced substantially.
The popularity of gastric bypass surgery in the United States has grown tremendously in recent years. Less than 14,000 gastric bypass surgeries were performed in the U.S. in 1987. By 1993, the number of gastric bypass surgeries performed in the U.S. had increased to about 16,800. Then, in the next ten years, the number of gastric bypass operations surged to over 103,000 in 2003. Over the next year, the number of gastric bypass operations performed in the U.S. continued to rise to over 140,000.
The more than ten-fold increase in the number of gastric bypass surgeries performed in the U.S. from 1987 to 2004 has resulted from a combination of ever-rising obesity rates with the similar rise in the number of surgeons willing to perform gastric bypass surgery. The highly publicized, successful gastric bypass surgeries of two celebrity patients, singer Carnie Wilson and NBC Today show weatherman Al Roker, also have swayed may prospective gastric bypass surgery candidates off from the fence and on to the operating table room.
Gastric bypass surgery is not recommended for everyone that is overweight. To qualify, one must be one hundred pounds or more overweight (morbidly obese) and have gone through several other weight-loss procedures.
Gastric Bypass Surgery Malpractice
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What is Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Medical Problems Caused by Morbid Obesity
Treatment for Morbid Obesity
Who is a Proper Candidate for Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Most Common Major Complications of Gastric Bypass Surgery
Leakage of Gastric Fluid
Pulmonary Embolism
Most Common Causes of Gastric Bypass Surgery Malpractice
Inexperience of the Surgeon Performing Gastric Bypass Surgery
Gastric Bypass Surgery Performed on Patient Who is Not a Proper Candidate
Failure to Timely Diagnose and Properly Treat Leakage of Gastric Fluid
Failure to Timely Diagnose and Properly Treat Pulmonary Embolism
Failure to Timely Diagnose and Properly Treat Gastric Bleed
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