Category:George Washington University alumni Alumni of George Washington University. Patch Adams; Casey Affleck; Angela Aki. John Howard Dellinger; Jeremiah Denton; James M. Derham; Daniel Deudney. UW Medical Center using surgical checklist to improve safety. Darrell McDonald, being prepped for surgery last week at the University of Washington Medical. Patchen 'Patch' Dellinger, thinks so. March 2. 00. 4 Columns Magazine Feature: Fat Chance. Julie Garner. PATCH WORKIn 1. E. Times sure have changed. In November the New York Times reported that more than 1. Americans underwent some form of bariatric surgery, or gastric bypass, in the last 1. Washington Health Foundation honors two medical faculty. Christopher Blagg, professor emeritus of medicine, and E. Patchen 'Patch' Dellinger. University of Washington School of Medicine. University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; Chief. Prevention of Surgical-Site Infections. Chair of SCOAP Advisory Board. Patch Dellinger, MD, FACS Chair, Safer Surgery Checklist Coalition Professor & Vice Chair, Dept. Seattle, WA David Flum. 25--The University of Washington Medical Center is one of eight hospitals around the world test. UW is One of 8 Hospitals Worldwide to Begin Using Surgical. At the time, Dellinger was working as a trauma surgeon at Harborview Medical Center, but wanted to have a relationship with patients beyond emergency care. He decided to pursue bariatric surgery because no one was serving morbidly obese patients. But the surgery was so rare then that very few surgeons knew how to do it. And I learned on the job. One of the things Dellinger has learned is that when a person hits 4. He is very frank with his patients about the surgery's limits. Surgery Professor E. Patchen 'Parch' Dellinger. Photo by Blayne Vixie. Diet and exercise cause weight loss and the operation assists dieting,' . Even though there is no silver bullet, many obese patients are wait- listed for the surgery at the UW because they are so desperate for change. After 2. 5 years of performing bariatric surgery, Dellinger speaks with passion about what these patients endure. They're in wheelchairs because of their weight. We get people who can barely breathe. Some don't leave their homes because they are too embarrassed. Obese patients often can't sit on a hospital toilet without breaking it. They're too heavy to have surgery on a regular operating table because it won't sustain their weight. Often X- rays and MRI images are inadequate because the technology can't . Some regular surgical instruments don't work because they're not long enough. The UW Medical Center has taken steps to improve services to patients who are obese. Equipment is being upgraded, nursing unit rooms are being remodeled so obese patients can get through widened doorways and new beds are more comfortable.
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