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手术后, our patients are more active, and they have a much better quality of life.
莎拉·E. 比尔梅尔,医学博士,公共卫生硕士While injectable weight loss drugs have exploded in popularity in the last year, bariatric surgery remains the best long-term treatment option for many living with obesity. The surgery involves surgically altering the size of the stomach and, 取决于方法, 绕过部分肠道的. The majority of patients lose a significant amount of excess weight, 糖尿病控制得更好, and reduce their use of blood pressure and diabetic medications. 病人 who undergo bariatric surgery on average live significantly longer than patients with obesity who do not undergo surgery.
十大网赌平台推荐卫生 is a regional leader in the use of the procedure, with more than 400 procedures performed annually in Lebanon, 康科德, 曼彻斯特和纳舒厄. The success of bariatric surgery depends in large part on preparing patients, 身体上和情感上, 为了一次改变人生的经历.
一个跨学科的护士团队, nutritionists and mental health practitioners collaborates on helping people with severe obesity and metabolic disorders to decide whether surgery is the choice, and then shepherd them through a rigorous eligibility and preparation process. 手术后, 患者得到团队的支持, both in the immediate transition period of six to eight months, and in the following years to identify and address any medical issues that might arise.
克里斯汀我. Slack-Potwin, one of the coordinators for the bariatric surgery program in Lebanon, is often the first point of contact for patients, 并帮助他们完成许多步骤, such as meeting medical qualifications for the surgery, attending orientation programs and making dietary changes. 斯莱克-波特温表示,保险要求各不相同, but can include patients keeping a journal of everything they eat, 心理评估, and several months of counseling with a nutritionist to enable patients to implement new eating habits.
Sivan Rotenberg, PhD, a psychologist with the Weight & Wellness Clinic at 十大网赌平台推荐卫生’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), conducts many of the required psychological evaluations. Rotenberg’s conversations with patients center on the person’s relationship to food and how patients can start changing that relationship. 减肥手术后生活良好, requires patients to make a strong commitment to change their lives pre-surgery, 她说, 可能需要数月的治疗或咨询.
“这些成功的治疗改变了人们的生活 in that they change a person’s entire approach to food and eating,” said Rotenberg. It’s important that these lifestyle changes become engrained before the surgery to maximize the chances for success.
克里斯托Kebler, 一位30多岁的老师, became a candidate for bariatric surgery due not only to her weight but a chronic liver condition that threatened to shorten her life. She lost 166 pounds over two years since her surgery. Intensive outpatient therapy prior to the surgery, that helped change Kebler’s attitudes and use of food as a coping strategy, 是我做过的最艰难的事情之一,”她说。. 但结果是值得的, 因为她的健康和生活质量更好, and she feels freer to do things that her excess weight prevented her from doing before.
莎拉·E. 比尔梅尔,医学博士,公共卫生硕士, a surgeon with the 减肥 Surgery Program at DHMC, hopes more patients with severe obesity will consider surgery. “这是一个没有得到充分利用的选择, very safe and has such an incredible success rate,”她说。.
比尔梅尔发现她的工作令人满意. “I get to make such an enormous difference in someone’s life,”她说。. “手术后, our patients are more active, and they have a much better quality of life.”
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十大网赌平台推荐卫生, New Hampshire's only academic health system and the state's largest private employer, 为新英格兰北部的病人提供服务. 十大网赌平台推荐健康中心提供超过2个,在几乎所有医学领域都有1万名医疗服务提供者, 在其旗舰医院提供医疗服务, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, 以及其广泛的医院网络, 诊所及护理设施. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. 新闻 & 世界报道, and recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. 十大网赌平台推荐健康中心包括 十大网赌平台推荐癌症中心, one of only 56 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; 十大网赌平台推荐健康儿童医院, which includes Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 该州唯一的儿童医院, and multiple clinic locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, 基恩和新伦敦, NH, 本宁顿和温莎, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the 盖泽尔医学院, 十大网赌平台推荐卫生 trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the 白河枢纽退伍军人医疗中心 在佛蒙特州的白河枢纽. 十大网赌平台推荐健康中心,超过13个,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, 个人护理.