Published in General Surgery News, an interesting article “The Post-Bariatric Patient With Complications”

Tips on Diagnosis and Management For the Nonbariatric Surgeon

“When patients develop a leak, they will have sustained tachycardia, above 120 [beats per minute] regardless of pain medication or antibiotics. But when the patient has a bleed, their heart rate doesn’t just go up; it also becomes very cyclic, from 80 to 120 to 90 to 110,” said Dr. Rosenthal, the chief of minimally invasive and bariatric surgery at Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Fla.

https://www.generalsurgerynews.com/In-the-News/Article/04-21/The-Post-Bariatric-Patient-With-Complications/63142