title: Outpatient complications encountered following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
abstract: Practitioners taking care of postoperative bariatric patients need to keep in mind all of the complications that this population faces to prevent unnecessary morbidity. Bariatric patients presenting postoperatively with abdominal pain, tachycardia, vomiting, tachypnea, and a sense of impending doom should be worked up aggressively to find the cause of their symptoms. Because the incidence of obesity is rising in children and adults, more patients will have surgery to help with their weight loss. Physicians caring for these patients must be able to diagnosis and treat their complications quickly and efficiently to prevent further complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC7740, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
authors.forename: Peter P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Lopez
authors.forename: Nilesh A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Lisa S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Koche
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain; D015390:Gastric Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008659:Metabolic Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D009325:Nausea / Q000209:etiology; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014839:Vomiting / Q000209:etiology