Safety and Feasibility of Same-Day Discharge After Primary Bariatric Surgery and the Value of Remote Monitoring with the Healthdot

• Published in: Obesity surgery Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 1743 - 1749
• Main Authors: van Dam, Kayleigh Ann Martina, Verkoulen, Geert Henricus Jozef Martinus, Broos, Pieter Petrus Henricus Lucien, de Witte, Evelien, Greve, Jan Willem M., Boerma, Evert-Jan Gijsbert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.05.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Ambulatory care; Bariatric Surgery - adverse effects; Bariatric Surgery - methods; Discharge; Feasibility Studies; Female; Gastric Bypass; Gastrointestinal surgery; Humans; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Monitoring systems; Monitoring, Physiologic - instrumentation; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Netherlands; Obesity, Morbid - surgery; Patient Discharge - statistics & numerical data; Patient Readmission - statistics & numerical data; Postoperative Complications - epidemiology; Retrospective Studies; Surgery; Vital Signs; Netherlands; Healthdot; Same day discharge; Remote monitoring

Background Annually, more than 12,500 bariatric procedures are performed in the Netherlands. Same-day discharge (SDD) has been implemented in several surgical procedures and was recently introduced in bariatric metabolic surgery (BMS). However, the best way to safely facilitate this introduction is...