Status of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in China: A National Survey

Obesity Surgery
Shibo LinHui Liang

Abstract

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a favorable bariatric procedure. This study evaluated the status of LSG in China. During the 4(th) International Forum of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery in May 2016, Nanjing China, an on-the-spot questionnaire was filled out by 105 attending surgeons with experience of LSG. The feedback data was collected and analyzed. For preoperative preparations, surgeons preferred blood glucose control with insulin (61.0%), bowel cleaning (33.3%), and fasting and water deprivation (75.2%). For surgical techniques, surgeons preferred 36/38F bougie (86.7%), greater curvature mobilization with ultrasonic energy device (89.5%), direct transection of short gastric vessels (80%), antrum resection within 2-6 cm to the pylorus (84.8%) with 4.8 mm height stapler (72.4%), and 3.5 mm for corpus (94.3%). Whole stapler-line reinforcement, gastric sleeve fixation, leaking test, and abdominal drainage were preferred by 48.6, 62.9, 39, and 47.6% surgeons. For postoperative managements, surgeons preferred nasogastric tube insertion (33.3%), early liquid diet (69.6%), 4 weeks of liquid diet (55.2%), 2000 ml daily water intake before discharge (79%), 4 weeks of PPI (69.5%), and multi-vitamin supplementation 1 week aft...Continue Reading

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