Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery - 2nd Edition by Stacy A Brethauer & Philip R Schauer & Bruce D Schirmer (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Extensively revised and updated new edition

Each chapter contains review questions and answers

Includes a link to online video files for relevant chapters​

From the Back Cover

The second edition of Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of this field, and it serves as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in minimally invasive bariatric surgery. Additionally, the second edition includes new features that will benefit the resident, fellow, or bariatric surgeon new to the field. Specifically, each evidence-based chapter (i.e. outcomes, complications, epidemiology, etc) concludes with three or four exam questions that emphasize the salient points of the chapter and provide fellowship programs a valuable training tool and resource for their academic curriculum. These questions are either single-answer multiple choice or true/false format and the correct response with a brief explanation follows. As more emphasis is placed on completing a comprehensive curriculum and obtaining certification for bariatric training, this aspect of the book is unique and provides addedvalue to the text. The new edition also incorporates many new or updated medical illustrations to enhance the technique chapters and provide more uniformity for the artwork throughout the book. Each of the major procedures include surgical technique, outcomes, and management of complications in separate chapters to provide an easy reference for the busy clinician preparing for a case or presentation. Another unique feature of the text is a link to video files hosted online for the relevant chapters. This video library will be of great value to the user. As the number of fellowships in laparoscopic bariatric surgery continues to increase, this updated text will provide a valuable resource for general and bariatric surgeons, laparoscopic surgeons, fellows, residents, medical students, obesity researchers, and industry representatives involved in this field.

Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery is a valuable resource for Medical students, surgical oncology fellows, general surgeons, and educators.

Review Quotes

"This is a high-quality and greatly needed reference on bariatric surgery. In our field, there is a need to constantly adopt evidence-based practices to improve patient outcomes, and this is a major goal of this book. Over the last seven years we have performed so many bariatric operations and have so much more information on best-practices that this is a necessary and critical update." (Jessica K. Smith, Doody's Book Reviews, April, 2016)

About the Author

STACY A. BRETHAUER, MD

Associate Director, Bariatric and Metabolic Institute

9500 Euclid Avenue, M61

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

PHILIP R. SCHAUER, MD

Professor of Surgery, Lerner College of Medicine

Director, Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric and Metabolic Institute

9500 Euclid Avenue, M61

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

BRUCE D. SCHIRMER, MD

Stephen H. Watts Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery

Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia Health System

Charlottesville, VA