Follow-up Visits
Follow-up visits have long been documented to enhance success after an operation. As a lifetime patient, your follow-up visits will give you a chance to learn important information about your ongoing care.
New information will be given to you at each appointment. It is imperative, therefore, that you keep every appointment. Each stage of your recovery will offer new challenges. We will be able to offer you a number of new solutions if we are aware of your situation.
Adjustable Gastric Band Patients
Careful follow-up visit have long been documented to enhance the success of the operation. It is imperative, therefore, that you keep every appointment. After AGB surgery, each patient will visit the physician in charge at least once a month until the band is adequately adjusted. Important information will be given to you at each of your post-op appointments. As each stage of your recovery offers new challenges, we will only be able to offer solutions, if we are aware of your situation.
Once goal weight is achieved, follow-up appointments will be scheduled annually.
One Week After Surgery
FIRST POST-OPERATIVE VISIT
We will evaluate your post-operative status and your surgical wound. You will meet with a Patient Advocate to review your dietary program and supplements.
Four Weeks After Surgery
SECOND POST-OPERATIVE VISIT
You will have post-operative counseling.
Six Weeks After Surgery
THIRD POST-OPERATIVE VISIT
Based on your individual progress, you will receive your first band adjustment.
Subsequent Office Visits
The frequency of subsequent visits will be determined by the doctor. However, a monthly visit should be anticipated and scheduled until the band is adequately adjusted.
Once that set adjustment has been reached, an office visit is to be scheduled every three months until goal weight is achieved. Once goal weight is achieved, follow-up appointments will be scheduled annually.
Lab work is very important in monitoring your progress and allowing us to provide proper medical care for you.
We have found that those patients who adhere to this follow-up program do very well in their weight loss and maintenance of good health. For your success, it is imperative that you comply with this scheduled follow-up program, which includes the scheduled appointments after surgery and lab work. We encourage that you track these on your calendar to stay current.
Gastric Bypass Patients
New information will be given to you at each appointment. It is imperative, therefore, that you keep every appointment. Each stage of your recovery offers new challenges. We will be able to offer you a number of new solutions if we are aware of your situation. If you have any dietary or lifestyle questions, please contact our Patient Advocates or Nurse.
One Week After Surgery
FIRST POST-OPERATIVE VISIT
We will evaluate your post-operative status and your surgical wound. You will begin taking supplements and meet again with a Patient Advocate to review the dietary/nutritional counseling you received pre-operatively.
Two Weeks After Surgery
SECOND POST-OPERATIVE VISIT
We will check your post-operative progress and remove some or all of your staples, depending on your healing. If they are not all removed at this visit, we will have you return in approximately one week (3 weeks after surgery) to remove the remainder of the staples.
Four Weeks After Surgery
THIRD POST-OPERATIVE VISIT
We will check your post-operative status and, if you have had a gastric bypass, you will meet with a Patient Advocate to review your puree foods stage and receive further dietary counseling.
Eight Weeks After Surgery
FOURTH POST-OPERATIVE VISIT
We will again check your post-operative status and weight loss, and discuss your nutritional status.
Once a Month Until Goal Weight
POST-OPERATIVE VISITS
We will continue to check your post-operative status and weight loss, and discuss your nutritional status.
Once a Month Until Goal Weight
CONTINUING POST-OPERATIVE VISITS
After you have achieved your goal weight, appointments are scheduled for every three months. These quarterly appointments are very important for our follow-up of your progress. This schedule helps us closely monitor your nutritional weight loss status. It helps us help you make a successful adjustment to the surgery and stay healthy. If at any time you are having medical problems, please let us know right away.
Lab work is very important in monitoring your progress and allowing us to provide proper medical care for you.
We have found that those patients who adhere to this follow-up program do very well in their weight loss and maintenance of good health. For your success, it is imperative that you comply with this scheduled follow-up program, which includes the scheduled appointments after surgery and lab work. We encourage that you track these on your calendar to stay current.