Pain Management in Weight Loss Surgery: Aiming for Multimodal Approach

The importance of WLS can be explained by the epidemic of obesity not only in the United States, where rates according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are between 26 and 32% (and rising). It is expected that almost half of the Americans will be overweight by 2018. Surgical approaches still remain the preferred alternative for this public health problem. Most of the bariatric surgery procedures are performed using minimally invasive techniques (MIS), these include laparoscopic gastric bypass, Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, Laparoscopic Gastric Banding and Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch (Figure 1) (Table 1).