March 19, 2016 / by Dave Oliak / body weight set-point, gastric sleeve outcomes, gastric sleeve surgery, weight loss surgery
All prospective gastric sleeve patients of course want to achieve great gastric sleeve success. This means getting a great long-term weight loss outcome, and avoiding complications. The published studies, unfortunately, show that this doesn’t always happen. Many patients achieve excellent, long-term gastric sleeve success, but some don’t. It is important to understand that great outcomes […]
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How I Do The Gastric Sleeve Operation
March 26, 2018 / by Dave Oliak / gastric sleeve surgeon, gastric sleeve surgery
In my last post, I discussed how the gastric sleeve operation is not a standardized operation. This means there is not consensus on how the operation should be done to achieve the best possible patient outcomes. Because of this lack of consensus, different surgeons do the gastric sleeve operation in different ways. Some make the […]
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The Gastric Sleeve Operation Is Not A Standardized Operation
March 26, 2018 / by Dave Oliak / gastric sleeve outcomes, gastric sleeve surgeon, gastric sleeve surgery
The gastric sleeve operation is not a standardized operation. This means there is not agreement on how to best do the operation. There is not agreement, for example, on how small to make the sleeve, or what dimensions/shape to make the sleeve, or where exactly to place the staple line, or how exactly to diagnose […]
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Variation in Outcomes at Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence
May 16, 2017 / by Dave Oliak / weight loss surgeon, weight loss surgery, weight loss surgery complications, weight loss surgery outcomes, weight loss surgery safety
A new study (read abstract) entitled “Variation in Outcomes at Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports a surprisingly wide variation in patient outcomes across accredited bariatric surgery centers of excellence nationally. Claims data were analyzed from 145,527 patients who underwent weight loss surgery at one of […]
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Gastric Sleeve Outcomes Update 2016
January 8, 2017 / by Dave Oliak / gastric sleeve complications, gastric sleeve leak, gastric sleeve outcomes, gastric sleeve surgeon, gastric sleeve surgery, gastric sleeve weight loss
It’s a new year which means it is time to evaluate our performance for the previous year, and update our outcomes statistics. This is am important and ongoing part of our practice. Dr. Oliak’s #1 goal since starting his weight loss surgery practice in 2002 has been to achieve not just good patient outcomes, but […]
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Weight Loss Surgery Trends Update 2016
January 7, 2017 / by Dave Oliak / gastric sleeve surgery, weight loss surgery
We have recently analyzed our 2016 weight loss surgery patient data. In this post we will discuss patient demographics and trends. To read about our 2016 gastric sleeve patient outcomes, click here. Of note, Dr. Oliak is a private practice weight loss surgeon located in Orange County, California, so his data and the patient trends […]
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Why Do Outcomes Vary Between Gastric Sleeve Surgeons?
September 25, 2016 / by Dave Oliak / gastric sleeve complications, gastric sleeve leak, gastric sleeve surgeon, gastric sleeve surgery, gastric sleeve weight loss
For all operations, there is some variation in outcomes between different surgeons. For gastric sleeve surgery, there is a large variation in outcomes (weight loss results, complication rates) between gastric sleeve surgeons – some surgeons achieve much better outcomes than others. I’ve discussed this in previous posts (here, here and here). In this post I […]
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Achieving Gastric Sleeve Success
March 19, 2016 / by Dave Oliak / body weight set-point, gastric sleeve outcomes, gastric sleeve surgery, weight loss surgery
All prospective gastric sleeve patients of course want to achieve great gastric sleeve success. This means getting a great long-term weight loss outcome, and avoiding complications. The published studies, unfortunately, show that this doesn’t always happen. Many patients achieve excellent, long-term gastric sleeve success, but some don’t. It is important to understand that great outcomes […]
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Gastric Sleeve Outcomes Vary by Surgeon
March 19, 2016 / by Dave Oliak / gastric sleeve outcomes, gastric sleeve surgeon, gastric sleeve surgery, weight loss surgery
We see it all the time – outcomes depend on who is producing the outcome. Some chefs, teachers, mechanics, athletes, authors, contractors, etc., do a better job and get better outcomes than others. This isn’t as obvious for doctors, but it is just as true. In the fields of medicine in which outcomes are easy […]
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Lucia’s Gastric Bypass Testimonial – 11 Years after Surgery
February 6, 2015 / by Dave Oliak / gastric bypass surgery, weight loss surgery, weight loss surgery before and after photos, weight loss surgery patient stories
Wow! Looking at the before picture below, I hardly recognize myself – LOL! Since my surgery my whole life has changed physically and especially, emotionally. If I hadn’t had to go to work every day, I would have hidden myself away back then. I dreaded meeting new people and I especially dreaded meeting friends and family […]
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My Favorite Gastric Sleeve Photo – Jordan
February 7, 2014 / by Dave Oliak / gastric sleeve surgery, weight loss surgery, weight loss surgery before and after photos, weight loss surgery patient stories
Over my 12 year career as a weight loss surgeon I have seen lots of great before and after photos. Recently a patient of mine showed me a gastric sleeve photo of herself before and after surgery that I thought was one of the best patient before/after photos I had ever seen, but not for […]
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