Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Understand pre-operative preparation for patients going thru prior  bariatric surgery
2. Understand special post-operative needs for bariatric patients
3. Understand the special equipment needs for bariatric patients
4. Understand the post-operative expectations for progress and discharge of bariatric patients

Faculty

Dr. Michael Tirabassi, MD, FACS, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Baystate Children's Hospital
Tufts University School of Medicine  
 

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.         

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.