Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the potential difficulties during a sleeve gastrectomy, how to avoid them and how to navigate through them.
  2. Realize the pitfalls that might be encountered while performing a Roux en Y gastric bypass.
  3. Portray the possible complications encountered during hypo-absorptive procedures.
  4. Appreciate the intra-operative and early post-operative hazards faced during complex revisional bariatric surgery.

Session Part I
8:00am Introduction
Omar M. Ghanem, MD
8:05am Sleeve: Bariatric Surgery Made Easy… Not Really!!
Tammy Kindel, MD/PhD
8:15am Video: Nothing in the Nose or Mouth Except the ET tube?
Monique Hassan, MD MBA FACS FASMBS
8:25am Video: Sleeve Leak Gone Wrong
Andre Teixeira, MD
8:35am Mastering the Bypass through Intraoperative Pitfalls
Saber Ghiassi, FACS FASMBS MD MPH
8:45am Video: Left Gastric Artery is Down, Can I Still Bypass?
Joseph A Greene, MD MBA FACS FASMBS
8:55am Video: The Ulcer is Hugging the Splenic Vessels
Julio Teixeira, FACS MD
9:05am Video: Horrible Intraoperative Complications in Bariatric Surgery - Medley
Pablo E Omelanczuk, MD
9:15am Question and Answer
9:30am Break
Session Part II
10:00am Introduction
Pearl Ma, MD FACS FASMBS Diplomate of ABOM
10:05am The “Easy” Bypass Becomes Hard: OAGB Disasters
Bradley F Schwack, FACS MD MS
OAGB: Same Complication, Different Management, Same Outcome?
10:15am Video 1
Rami Lutfi, MD FACS FASMBS
10:25am Video 2
Helmuth T Billy, MD
10:35am Duodenal Switch Complications: Cliff Notes Version
Folahan K Ayoola, MD FACS FASMBS
10:45am Video: GDA Bleed During a SADI-S Revision
Pearl Ma, MD FACS FASMBS Diplomate of ABOM
10:55am Video: Duodenal Switch Leak and Beyond
Rana C Pullatt, MD
11:05am How to Avoid Catastrophes During Revisional Bariatric Surgery
Laura Doyon, MD
11:15am Video: Early Paraesophageal Hernia Recurrence after RYGB: A Recipe forCataclysm
Omar M. Ghanem, MD
11:25am Video: An ESG Disaster
Muffazal Lakdawala, MS
11:35am Question and Answer
12:00pm Adjourn