60% of the Spanish population is overweight and almost 25% obese. These WHO data reflect an alarming situation that is increasing year after year. One of the references in our country in bariatric surgery and member of Top Doctors, Dr. Resa Bienzobas, tells us how he performs surgery for obesity and diabetes.
Advantages of the obesity and diabetes surgery that Dr. Resa performs
The main advantage of Dr. Resa’s technique is its minimal duration, 30 minutes. In addition, the patient has a rapid recovery, achieving discharge in 48 hours or less. Dr. Resa Bienzobas, together with his team, has been applying for many years what is called early, intensified or multimodal rehabilitation. Multimodal rehabilitation manages to optimize in time and efficiency all pre-, intra- and postoperative steps to reduce pain, improve mobility after surgery and rapid food tolerance to reduce hospital stay as much as possible.
Moreover, after surgery, in a short time, the patient is allowed to eat normally.
Multidisciplinary team
One of the keys to the success of this type of surgery is the involvement of the multidisciplinary medical team made up of more than 14 professionals. One example is the anesthesiologists, who are thought to only interact with patients in the operating room. In the case of Dr. Resa Bienzobas’ team, they act before, during and after the intervention, being in close contact with the patient. In addition, obesity and diabetes surgery by laparoscopy requires a very important relaxation, a constant control of parameters and a very fast awakening. For this, they incorporate the most advanced anesthetic drugs to awaken patients in a more pleasant way and without nausea or vomiting.
Although the medical part and its result is the main thing, it is always important to take into account the human value and the treatment received by the patient. In this way, we provide not only safety, but also quality of life.