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ArticleTrauma surgery & acute care open2018

Early and late complications of bariatric operation.

Robert Lim, Alec Beekley, Dirk C Johnson, Kimberly A Davis

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Article in Trauma surgery & acute care open, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06744933 (Self-administered Auricular Acupressure Integrated With a Smartphone Application for Weight Reduction in Patients With Obesity Accompanied With Obesity-related Comorbid Illness), which is not on this map. Cited by 97 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT06744933 nanot yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Self-administered Auricular Acupressure Integrated With a Smartphone Application for Weight Reduction in Patients With Obesity Accompanied With Obesity-related Comorbid Illness: A Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorTung Wah CollegeRan2025 to 2026Enrolled220ConditionsObesity and Metabolic SyndromeArmsSelf-administered auricular acupressure integrated with a smartphone application
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97 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 228 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Robert LimDepartment of Surgery, Tripler Army Medical Center, Tripler, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Alec BeekleyDepartment of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Dirk C JohnsonDepartment of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Kimberly A DavisDepartment of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Yale University · USThomas Jefferson University · USTripler Army Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Weight loss surgery is one of the fastest growing segments of the surgical discipline. As with all medical procedures, postoperative complications will occur. Acute care surgeons need to be familiar with the common problems and their management. Although general surgical principles generally apply, diagnoses specific to the various bariatric operations must be considered. There are anatomic considerations which alter management priorities and options for these patients in many instances. These problems present both early or late in the postoperative course. Bariatric operations, in many instances, result in permanent alteration of a patient's anatomy, which can lead to complications at any time during the course of a patient's life. Acute care surgeons diagnosing surgical emergencies in postbariatric operation patients must be familiar with the type of surgery performed, as well as the common postbariatric surgical emergencies. In addition, surgeons must not overlook the common causes of an acute surgical abdomen-acute appendicitis, acute diverticulitis, acute pancreatitis, and gallstone disease-for these are still among the most common etiologies of abdominal pathology in these patients.

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acute care surgerycomplicationsmorbid obesity

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PMID30402562
PMCPMC6203132
OpenAlexW2896230489

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