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Care for patients who have undergone one anastomosis gastric bypass surgery. 2019

Kamal Mahawar

Consultant Surgeon, Bariatric Unit, Sunderland Royal Hospital.

Thousands of bariatric surgery procedures are performed in the UK each year, including gastric bypass surgery. The one anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB) is increasingly performed in the UK, and nurses may find themselves providing care for patients who have undergone this procedure. This article outlines the anatomical and physiological changes associated with OAGB, routine care of these patients in the short and long term, and the identification and management of complications.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009733	Nursing Diagnosis	Conclusions derived from the nursing assessment that establish a health status profile for the patient and from which nursing interventions may be ordered.	Diagnosis, Nursing,Diagnoses, Nursing,Nursing Diagnoses
D011183	Postoperative Complications	Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.	Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D006113	United Kingdom	Country in northwestern Europe including Great Britain and the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland, located between the North Sea and north Atlantic Ocean. The capital is London.	Great Britain,Isle of Man
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013270	Stomach	An organ of digestion situated in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen between the termination of the ESOPHAGUS and the beginning of the DUODENUM.	Stomachs
D015390	Gastric Bypass	Surgical procedure in which the STOMACH is transected high on the body. The resulting small proximal gastric pouch is joined to any parts of the SMALL INTESTINE by an end-to-side SURGICAL ANASTOMOSIS, depending on the amounts of intestinal surface being bypasses. This procedure is used frequently in the treatment of MORBID OBESITY by limiting the size of functional STOMACH, food intake, and food absorption.	Gastroileal Bypass,Gastrojejunostomy,Greenville Gastric Bypass,Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass,Bypass, Gastric,Bypass, Gastroileal,Bypass, Roux-en-Y Gastric,Gastric Bypass, Greenville,Gastric Bypass, Roux-en-Y,Gastrojejunostomies,Roux en Y Gastric Bypass