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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

sponsored by the Credentialing Resource Center

presented on March 20, 2006

Reduce risk, secure resources, ensure competence!

Make sure your surgeons have adequate experience to safely perform bariatric surgery and that your facility has the appropriate multidisciplinary team.

An increasing number of facilities offer bariatric surgery. While there are clear benefits to be gained in the treatment of diabetes, sleep apnea, and obesity thru this procedure, the morbidity and mortality rates remain significant.

Understand and overcome competency challenges inherent in the process of implementing new, different, or controversial procedures and technology.

Listen to HCPro and The Greeley Company for this important audioconference. Our expert speakers will explore the various requirements, risks, and benefits to starting a bariatric surgery program from scratch and provide detailed information on how to improve an existing program.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After listening to this audioconference, attendees will be able to:

• List various healthcare practitioners who should compose the multidisciplinary team needed to offer this procedure
• Cite history/problems resulting from inadequate bariatric surgical training, poor facility planning
• Identify the medical organizations that publish well-defined criteria regarding the training and qualifications surgeons need to perform bariatric surgery
• Describe the consult capabilities that organizations need to have in place for successful bariatric procedures
• Identify the facility/equipment requirements and practical needs required for bariatric surgery
• Utilize validated privileging guidelines to find an appropriate surgeon for your bariatric surgery program
• Describe appropriate monitoring methods for medical follow up issues and outcomes data collection

PROGRAM AGENDA

1. Setting the scene: defining and assessing bariatric surgery
   • Term coined by American Society for Bariatric Surgery and American Society of Bariatric Physicians
   • Types of bariatric surgery
   • Brief history of problems, to current status
   • National Institutes of Health guidelines
2. How to compose the necessary team
   • Professionals and titles
     • Unique perspective of bariatricians
     • Pre-op and post-op roles of the team
   • Using teams that are already in place
3. Facilities/Equipment
   • Requirements - beds, toilets, CT scanner, etc
   • Practical needs - johnnies, wide chairs in waiting areas, ways to weigh patients
4. Consult services
   • Requirements - dietary, radiology, cardiology, 24 ICU care, etc.
   • Practical needs - Sleep study lab, Endocrinology, etc., bariatricians/hospitalists
5. Privileging programs
   • American Society of Bariatric Surgery and American College of Surgeons guidelines for surgeon training
   • Finding an appropriate surgeon(s)
6. Continued monitoring of program
   • Medical follow-up issues
   • Outcomes measures
     • National Surgical Quality Improvement Program/independent data collectors vs. having surgeons do it
     • Benchmarks are only way to assess surgeons' competence
   • Frequency of data collection
   • Re-credentialing guidelines
7. Question and answer session

MEET THE SPEAKERS!

Janey Pratt, MD, is the senior bariatric surgeon and general surgeon at Mass General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. In addition, she is an instructor in surgery at Harvard School of Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She specializes in bariatric surgery. Her research interests include minimally invasive surgery for obesity, surgical simulation and surgical instrumentation. She received CIMIT funding to explore the educational process for Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery and to initiate a program at the MGH.

Mary C. Vernon, MD, FAAFP, CMD, is board certified in bariatric and family medicine. She is in private practice in Lawrence, KS. She currently serves as the president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. She has served as adjunct clinical faculty for the University of Kansas School of Medicine since 1982. Dr. Vernon has served as a medical bariatric consultant for The Duke Diet and Fitness Center and The University of Kansas Energy Balance Lab Weight Control Research Program as well as Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

Sue Cummings, MS, RD, LDN, is the clinical programs coordinator for the MGH Weight Center. Ms. Cummings is responsible for creating, developing and coordinating all clinical programs at the MGH Weight Center, including the MGH monthly Surgical Orientation and the pre- and post-surgical management programs. In addition, she teaches at Harvard Medical School and the American Dietetic Association's Weight Certificate training program. She is the chair of the American Dietetic Association's evidence-based analysis work group on bariatric surgery and is the coordinator of the American Dietetic Association's practice group for dietitians in bariatric surgery.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

• Medical staff leadership
• Medical staff professionals
• Members of the MEC
• VPMAs
• CEOs
• COOs
• Surgical team members
• Chiefs of surgery
• Risk management professionals

PROGRAM MATERIALS

Program materials will be provided with PDF links.

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