Bariatric Surgery
Our Bariatric Program
For patients, taking that step to have major surgery for obesity is for most, full of apprehension and trepidation. Our team is there to take you through this journey with the mission of ensuring safety and minimal complications related to the surgery. Preparation phase for surgery usually takes 4 – 8 weeks, for the purpose of making sure major complications related to the surgery in the first month, is kept to and absolute minimum (<5% risk). Complications related to the surgery over a lifetime can also occur and to deal with these requires expertise of the experienced bariatric surgeon. For that reason, a team of surgeons is required, to deal with any potentially life-threatening complication.
We also understand that many patients, who develop unrelated surgical and medical illnesses, would prefer to be under the treatment of professionals in the centre, rather than go to other doctors who do not understand the surgery they had done. For that reason, this centre also has the expertise to deal with most other surgical and medical problems as well.
Bariatric procedures
The procedures performed in our centre include the Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and Laparoscopic biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch procedure. Every individual patient will be told what the pro’s and con’s of each procedure is, we as a team will recommend what we feel is best but ultimately the patient will make their own decision.
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This website is not meant to be comprehensive in giving details of obesity management and surgery. You as the patient are an individual with unique medical requirements. These can only be properly assessed with a formal consultation so please send us an e-mail or phone our offices.
Gauteng CEMMS is a multidisciplinary team, presently consisting of 3 very experienced bariatric and general surgeons, two physicians and three anaesthetists. We also have a dietician and psychologist in our team with more than 20 years of experience in this field and new members who are being trained constantly. We have a network of other specialists in these hospitals that are accredited to deal with all other related medical and surgical problems that patients may develop, that are unrelated to their bariatric surgery. We have a Casualty department where all bariatric surgery emergencies will be referred back to us.