Morbid obesity - part 1

Morbid obesity is a significant problem for healthcare and public health around the world. Weight loss surgery, or bariatric surgery, is increasingly used to help people who cannot lose weight in other ways and who's excess weight is causing other medical problems.
In this audio podcast, mapped to ISCP learning objectives, Eleanor Rudge talks to Ali Tavakkoli about surgical treatment, multidisciplinary team assessment and the importance of psychological and dietetic assessment and indications and options for surgery (BMI thresholds may be different where you live), including gastric bands, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass. Part 2 will discuss early and late complications of surgery and long term management of patients following bariatric surgery.
Miss Eleanor Rudge is a Speciality Registrar in the East of England and Surgical Research Fellow at Harvard and Dr Ali Tavakkoli is a Bariatric Consultant Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.