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Is High Dependency or Intensive Care treatment plans required for weight loss surgery?
Following a bariatric procedure, the majority of patients are handled in a conventional inpatient postoperative surgical facility. In this video, Mr. Ahmed Ahmed tells us about the patients that need High Dependency or Intensive Care treatment plans required for weight loss surgery.
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Most patients after weight loss surgery will be able to go back to the regular ward and then be discharged to them a day or two later. It is quite rare to need admission into an intensive care or high dependency unit, however However for some patients who are very sick before surgery, for example, those with heart failure or renal failure, then for those particular high-risk cases, their team might electively admit them to the high-dependency units straight away after surgery for a day or two.
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