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HOLISTIC CARE OF A BARISTIC PATIENT Institution's Name: Date: Abstract bariatric patients are increasing in number, and there is the necessity to ensure that these patients are given health care in a dignified manner and without predisposing the care giver to risks of back injury.... The body weight of bariatric patient is usually higher than that of ordinary patients and, therefore, they cannot fit in the convectional stretchers, beds and wheel chairs.... This paper will look at a holistic paramedic emergency response for a bariatric patient....
9 Pages
(2250 words)
Essay
The purpose of this review was to enumerate and discuss the literature on the subject of the role played by bariatric surgery in treating type 2 DM in overweight or obese patients in addition to analyzing the benefits and adverse effects associated with it.... Evidence about the role, credibility, and shortcomings of bariatric surgery as a thriving treatment option for type 2 DM is gathered through reviewing credible scientific journals and findings are discussed and scrutinized in this paper as an attempt to compare and contrast what different researchers have said on this subject so far....
12 Pages
(3000 words)
Literature review
This paper represents a critical review of the journal article related to psychology and psychiatry, entitled as 'Psychiatric Disorders and Participation in Pre- and Post-operative Counseling Groups in bariatric surgery Patients'.... In the study, the authors sought to find out how psychological and behavioral factors can greatly influence the future success of bariatric surgery patients in their sustainable weight loss program after surgery and their related feelings of wellbeing, termed as health-related quality of life (HRQOL)....
8 Pages
(2000 words)
Essay
The Impact of bariatric surgery on Obesity-Related Infertility and Pregnancy Outcomes INTRODUCTION There has been a significant increase in prevalence of obesity in the United States.... In 1991 the NIH conference on gastrointestinal surgery for obesity recommended bariatric surgery as the only effective treatment for those with BMI >40 as well as those over 35 with significant comorbidities.... Women of reproductive age account for 49% of patients undergoing bariatric surgery....
13 Pages
(3250 words)
Article
It has further discussed long term risk and benefits of Gastric bypass surgery as this surgery reduced the size of the stomach to limit the amount of food it would hold, avoiding some of the problems of the intestinal bypass while continuing the predominance of surgical intervention as the absolute treatment of chronic obesity problems.... our factors have made surgery the treatment of choice for many such people : (1) recent demonstration of the severity of the various physical complications often with profound psychosocial disability, resulting in a twelve-fold increase in mortality among younger persons, (2) the inefficacy of conventional treatments; (3) the continuing development of newer surgical measures ; and (4) many health benefits at acceptable levels of risk.
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14 Pages
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Essay
According to bariatric surgery Guide (2007), bariatric surgery, from the Greek words weight and treatment, or weight loss surgery, is a type of procedure performed on people who are dangerously obese, for the purpose of losing weight.... This is the equivalent of being about 100 pounds overweight for men and 80 pounds overweight for women (Consumer Guide to Weight Loss Surgery (bariatric surgery), 2005).... nly when a person is found to be morbidly obese is bariatric surgery offered as recourse....
5 Pages
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Essay
This research paper describes the diabetes, that is a metabolic disorder characterized by absence of insulin and the effectiveness of bariatric surgery in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.... The researcher of this essay focuses on the analysis of the effectiveness of bariatric surgery in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.... This is in bid to assess the effectiveness of bariatric surgery in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.... In conclusion, the researcher sums up his study and mentiones that the NCD rationale made sense as pertains to bariatric surgery....
9 Pages
(2250 words)
Research Paper
The present paper entitled "bariatric surgery" investigates the use of bariatric surgery to resolve symptoms of Type 2 diabetes in obese patients.... bariatric surgery is the solution to the treatment of type 2 diabetes that occurs in conjunction with obesity when all other methods have failed to produce positive results.... demonstrated the applicability of bariatric surgery in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes in a case whereby all other medication approaches had failed to produce results....
16 Pages
(4000 words)
Research Paper