Friday, June 24, 2011

Outpatient Bariatric Surgery May Lead To Higher Mortality And Complications

Better not to be fat.
A new study of nearly 52,000 patients found that people who had gastric bypass surgery and were discharged from the hospital sooner than the national average of a two-day length of stay, experienced significantly higher rates of 30-day mortality and complications. The findings were presented here at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).
Oops.

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