Abstract
Traditionally, the vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) has been performed as an inpatient (IP) procedure with a 1-3 day post-operative stay (2.1 day average LOS per MBSAQIP data base). Over the past 5 years our bariatric surgery program has slowly worked on shortening this LOS for patients undergoing VSG from routine admission, to 23 hour stay, to now preferentially performing VSG as an outpatient (OP) procedure with a routine post-operative LOS of 4-8 hours (0.3 days per MBSAQIP data base). This has been accomplished through a very comprehensive educational process (both pre-op and post-op) as well as close clinical patient contact after discharge.
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