Medical Management of the Metabolic-Bariatric Surgery Patient

Medical Management of the Metabolic-Bariatric Surgery Patient is organized by The Obesity Society (TOS).

Release Date: February 16, 2022
Expiration Date: February 1, 2025

Description:
Severe obesity and its complications are best managed by an interdisciplinary team including both surgical and medical providers.  This on-demand webinar recording features presentations by leading experts, panel discussions, and Q&A to cover best practice recommendations for the pre-and post-operative management of patients undergoing metabolic-bariatric surgery. Topics include optimizing pre-operative care as well as recognizing and developing approaches to the variability in post-operative weight loss and remission rates of obesity-related complications in both adult and pediatric patients.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will gain an understanding of the best nutritional approaches pre- and post-surgery based on evidence and expert opinion.
• Participants will understand how metabolic-bariatric surgeries such as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy impact glucose absorption and metabolism, including implications for diabetes remission/recurrence and risk for hypoglycemia. Participants will learn approaches to managing hypoglycemia symptoms.
• Participants will be able to advise patients regarding individual variations in weight loss and obesity-related outcomes following surgery and be able to formulate appropriate treatment plans for poor responding patients based on evidence and expert opinion.
• Participants will learn indications, outcomes, and management approaches to metabolic-bariatric procedures in pediatric patients.