Behavioral Health – Staff Education
In this section, you will find resources to assist in educating your program staff on topics related to behavioral health.
ASMBS Professional Resource Center
Sample Job Descriptions
This resource provides templates for job descriptions for potential healthcare providers within a metabolic and bariatric surgery program.
Physical Activity
Providing recommendations and resources based on a patient’s individual needs and history is critical. This section provides links to websites that can help you develop materials for patients related to physical activity and ideas for creative resources to provide.
Nutrition & Supplements
Nutrition and supplementation plays a critical role in the ongoing health of a patient undergoing bariatric surgery. This section supplies resources and guidelines of nutrition and supplemental research, however this does not encompass the vast amount of data concerning this subject matter and is not all-inclusive.
Informed Consent
This section contains information that can assist healthcare professionals in creating patient education materials to be provided throughout the informed consent process. As individual programs differ, these resources are not all-encompassing and should be tailored to each program’s needs.
Facility Stay
This section contains an outline of items to consider in the creation of your patient documents concerning the facility stay during the bariatric surgery process. The needs of each clinic will be different, and these resources are provided as a guide only.
VTE Prophylaxis
This section contains articles and guidelines relevant to prophylaxis for VTE in WLS patients. This statement was reviewed for update and determine no updated needed in 2017.
Psychosocial Guidelines
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Clinical Pathway Templates
A clinical pathway is a tool used to define, standardize, and sequence the interventions required by each member of the multidisciplinary bariatric surgery team to reduce risk, optimize outcomes, and ensure quality care. In this section, you will find examples of bariatric surgery pathway formats for gastric sleeve, gastric band, and gastric bypass surgeries, spanning the time frame from initial contact, through pre-op, staging, intra- op and post-op, to follow up care. These pathways include assessment, diagnostics, consults, medications, potential complications,…
Other Published Guidelines
This section contains guidelines pertinent to specific WLS topics or populations (e.g.,pediatric patients).