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Hello. That s a nice question. It will be according with the hospital and medical criteria and protocols. There are places were you are admited the same day of surgery and have to stay for one or two nights after surgery. There are some trials for ambulatory programs but is not recommended yet and my personal opinion is that you must stay for one or two nights.Regards
My patients go home when they are tolerating a liquid diet, ambulating, pain is controlled, and I am not worried about a leak. Usually that happens the day after surgery. Some patients stay a bit longer because of nausea. I would never send a patient home the same day as surgery because I like to check for signs of bleeding or leak the following day. This requires serial monitoring of vital signs and a blood test.
The stomach walls are muscle, and they contract and expand as we eat, so the stretch a bit. Immediately after the surgery, the scaring process and swelling might make your new stomach a bit rigid, so as the healing process continue it will expand a little bit when you eat. That’s why we tell t...
Although it is possible to perform them during the same operative time, the weight loss resulting from the gastric sleeve would outweigh the results achieved with breast augmentation. Ideally, after the gastric sleeve is performed, once the ideal weight loss has been achieved, a year later, the...
For gastric sleeve just a few months ago is that some insurance companies consider it as an option for bariatric surgery. In my Dominican Republic still no insurance company approves the bariatric surgeries. Someday your insurance approve this type of surgery, maybe you should try some other...