Litigation Cases After Post-Bariatric Surgery: Lesson from the Past

CONCLUSION: Post-bariatric patients often mistake their preoperative condition and consider body contouring procedures as an aesthetic surgery treatment. Patients should be therefore clearly informed about the complexity of body contouring procedures after massive weight loss, which should never be compared to aesthetic surgery. Surgeons should always promote the communication with their patients and build a strong and trustworthy relationship. This attitude will allow to deal more easily with complications and, in the worst situations, with medico-legal litigations.LEVEL OF EVIDENCE IV: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .PMID:36820862 | DOI:10.1007/s00266-023-03287-1

Source: Hand Surgery - February 23, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Federico Facchin Andrea Pagani Filippo Andrea Giovanni Perozzo Carlotta Scarpa Franco Bassetto Vincenzo Vindigni Source Type: research