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Over the last decade, there has been increasing awareness of the importance of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in the management of a number of conditions which have traditionally been considered as surgical conditions. This is particularly true in bariatric surgery where the complex multifactorial nature of obesity combined with the need for regular follow-up and monitoring after the surgery means that this specialty lends itself to following an MDT approach. Members of the bariatric MDT vary according to circumstances but should have as its core members an obesity physician, specialist surgeon, dietitian, psychologist and anesthetist with the expertise of additional members (for example, plastic surgeons) available when needed. Although there is limited prospective data on the efficacy of the MDT in bariatric surgery, given the trends with respect to the rising incidence of high-risk surgical candidates and revisional surgery, it is likely that the MDT will have an increasingly important role in the future in managing pre- and post-bariatric patients.
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Khan, O., Bano, G., Reddy, M. (2016). The Structure and Role of the Multidisciplinary Team in Bariatric Surgery. In: Agrawal, S. (eds) Obesity, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04343-2_15
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