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The Lap Band procedure can be broken down into 3 major parts which includes the preoperative, the surgery and finally the postoperative components. To start with you will have to go in for several appointments prior to the surgery to determine a number of factors including whether the surgery ill be safe and beneficial for you. You will undergo several different blood tests along with a variety of imaging sessions and of course a gastroscopy. All of these combined will assist the surgeon in making sure the incisions are in the right place and to make sure their will be no complications of other parts of the digestive tract should the procedure take place.
The next part is of course the operation which starts off with several small incisions which are based from the preoperative exams. The incisions will be made in locations which the surgeon has predetermined to be optimal to assist in a speedy surgical procedure. From this point, through one of the 1cm incision that the surgeon made he or she will place the Lap-Band which is composed of silicone around the upper part of the stomach in order to create the pouch which will restrict the amount of food the patient can eat and digest.
This entire procedure is usually accomplished within a time period of no more than 60 minutes and is done under general anesthesia. After the band has been fitted to the upper portion of the stomach, the newly created pouch can then be adjusted to allow more or less food to be ingested at any given time. From the Lap-Band’s gastric band a small tube with an access port can also bee found. The surgeon will place this access port just under the skin’s surface near the upper portion of the patient’s abdomen. This access port will allow the surgeon to later adjust the Lap-Ban by using a syringe filled with a saline solution. In order to tighten the band the surgeon will add more saline solution but to loosen it he or she will take some of the saline solution out.
From this point the patient will generally be discharged within the first 24 to 48 hours after the procedure and allowed to go on with their daily life. Over the next couple of months the patient will have to get use to their new diet routines as well as change their lifestyle in order to prevent any future weight gains. |
