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Laparoscopic Gastric Banding DVD

This DVD is a result of the cumulative experience from 3000 lap band operations by one surgeon. It shares the technical innovations and developments gained from 14 years of Laparoscopic gastric banding.

The techniques shown can be a valuable aid to both novice and experienced bariatric surgeons.

Chapters include:

• Introduction
• Pre-Op
  • Instruments
  • Positioning the Patient
• Operation
  • Patient preparation
  • Incisions
  • Placement of "Natanson" liver hook
  • Placement of trocars
  • Fat retention sutures
  • Insertion of the black rod
  • Initiating dissection
  • Pars Flaccida approach
  • Lap Band insertion
  • Goldfinger technique
  • Placement of the band
  • Suturing the wrap
  • Tail segment out / Lateral port
  • Double gloving / Tunnelling the tubing
  • Suturing the infusaport
  • Local anaesthetic to trocar sites
  • Insert skin clips
  • Suturing over the infusaport
• Unusual Problems
  • Large hiatus hernia
  • Large left lobe of liver
  • Caudate lobe of liver
  • Sea of fat - excessive fatty omentum
  • Reflecting large esophageal fat pad
  • Abnormal vessels (greater curve)
• Conclusion