Dr Yuan Cheng

Welcome to our Report Card for MAY 2022

It’s been another month with good safety and efficacy results.

The most outstanding result is that 13 out of 25 patients had lost all of their excess weight and more. Usually we would only expect this to be around 5 to 10%, which is 1 to 2 patients out of 25.

While we celebrate of our great success, there are two patients who did not achieve the expected 60% excess weight loss.

So a gentle reminder, surgery is a powerful and most reliable tool for weight loss. Yet it is not everything.

Best wishes - Dr. Yuan Cheng

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Join Our World Obesity Day Competition 2024!
(details on our website:
https://www.obesity.com.au/world-obesity-day-competition-bariatric-surgery-melbourne-vic.html )

Share Your Journey, Inspire Others

How to Participate:

👉Submit your story to [email protected] by 31st March, 2024.
Please include before and after photos in the attachment if available.
👉or directly post on our Facebook Support Group

Share your challenges, triumphs, tips, and results to help others on their journey.
You can remain anonymous or disclose your name in any way that you feel comfortable with.

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📡Spread the Word, Make a Difference

By sharing your story, you're not just celebrating your success – you're helping to raise awareness about the importance of bariatric surgery and encouraging others to prioritize their health.

Join us in inspiring and empowering our community.

Your story matters!
-- Dr. Yuan Cheng

Epworth Centre for Bariatric Surgery (ECBS) invites all our patients to join our competition!

Share Your Journey, Inspire Others

Whether you've experienced the highs and lows, conquered challenges, or found unexpected joys along the way, we invite you to share your experience with weight loss surgery. Your story could be the inspiration someone needs to take the first step towards a healthier lifestyle.

How to Participate...details to come

Welcome to our Report Card for APRIL 2022

I’m glad that we continue to have ZERO complications this month. 29 patients went through and recovered from surgery safely.

The average excess weight loss was 84.1%, which means that patients on average would lose 84.1% of their excess weight 1 year after gastric sleeve.

The average total weight loss was 37.4 kg (12 to 82kg) and 32.1% (13.2% to 52.2%).
Thank you for maintaining your regular follow-up and responding to our surveys.

“Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better.”― Emile Coué

I was asked before why I wanted to do bariatric surgery. This recent Email from a patient who had sleeve gastrectomy offers the best answer.

I'm glad I could be part of your journey to become lighter, healthier and happier. I feel truly blessed.

Thank you all for your trust and your effort!

Welcome to our Report Card for March 2022

I’m glad that we continue to have ZERO complications this month. 23 patients went through and recovered from surgery safely.

The average excess weight loss was 94.4%! This was quite impressive, considering the average expectation was 60-70% internationally.

The average total weight loss was 38.4 kg (15-78kg) and 34.2% (16.7% to 51.4%).

Thank you for maintaining your regular follow-ups and responding to our surveys. �
Thank you for your trust in us. 😀

Patients after weight-loss surgery need to take daily multivitamin supplements to reduce the risks of malnutrition.
The most common brands specific to weight-loss surgery are BN multi and FitForMe.
You can take FitForMe once a day or BN twice a day.
Sleeve patients need to have FitForMe Opti.
Bypass patients need to have FitForMe Forte.
FitForMe is also safe to be taken during pregnancy.
You can use our coupon code FFMECBS23 when ordering FirForme and receive a first-time discount of $9.90.

Welcome to our first REPORT CARD!
-- Starting from FEB 2022
-- 18 patients had sleeve gastrectomy. 100% follow-up.
-- 0 complication
-- Average excess weight loss 103.4% (51.9 - 140%)
-- Average total weight loss 36.6% (18.6 - 56.3%)

Long-term post op follow up is important to ensure your health and ongoing benefit from weight loss surgery.

Please expect to receive emails from us via SurveyMonkey if we haven't had reviews with you for a while.

I will appreciate if you could spend one minute and complete the survey.
We will start with patients from FEB 2022. --Dr Cheng

In ECBS, We hope to make our price easier to understand, so you would have more time to learn about your surgery. Welcome to ECBS, pioneers in bariatric surgery since 1998.

- 1 -
Elective surgery will resume to 100% from next week in Melbourne!

We have and will continue to contact everyone on our waiting list to organise your surgery.

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For our patients having surgery at EPWORTH Hospital:
- pre-op Covid testing still required within 48 hour of admission.
- both PCR and RAT tests are accepted.

For KNOX Private Hospital:
- pre-op Covid testing is no longer required.

For Mulgrave Private Hospital:
- Hospital will provide RAT test on arrival.

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Patients with Covid infection need to contact us. Major surgeries should be deferred until 7 weeks after full recovery.

Elective Surgery Update:

Elective surgery will resume from next Monday on 14 Feb 2022, with 50% capacity.

Elective Surgery Update:

The Department of Health has confirmed a scaled resumption of elective surgery from next Monday 7 Feb, with 50% limit on capacity.

At this stage, only DAY surgeries are allowed, ie Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy.

Surgeries that require overnight hospital stays are still suspended, such as Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass.

We will be contacting all patients on our waiting list for Gastroscopy or Colonoscopy in the next few days to organise your theatre booking.

For patients requiring Sleeve Gastrectomy or Gastric Bypass, we will continue monitor the situation and keep you updated.

We thank you for your patience and please stay safe.

The Department of Health has announced that elective surgery will once again be restricted to urgent procedures only, effective from Thursday, 6 Jan 2022.

Non-urgent elective surgeries, including sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass are temporarily postponed.

At this stage, we are anticipating these restrictions will be in place for the remainder of this month.

We will contact you to reschedule your surgery once the restrictions are lifted.

Thank you for your understanding and please stay safe!

Dr Cheng

Update on resumptions of elective surgery with 50% capacity (11 Nov 2021)

Elective surgeries will be resumed from next Monday with 50% capacity.

We will be starting to contact everyone on our waiting list to arrange new surgery dates. It will take some time to reach everyone and with 50% capacity limit in place, the waiting list can be "stretched".

We appreciate your patience and understanding!

Update on restrictions on elective surgery (13 Oct 2021)

The Department of Health has confirmed that all non-urgent elective surgeries will be suspended across all Melbourne public and private hospitals.

For our patients already booked for surgeries, you will be contacted soon and put onto our waiting list. As soon as the covid restriction is lifted, we will be contacting you again and reschedule a new operation date.

For new patients, we continue to offer consultations via Telehealth or Face-to-Face with safe covid practice. When you are ready to proceed to surgery, we will place you onto our waiting list until the covid restriction is lifted.

Please feel free to contact us for any questions. Stay safe!

----Epworth Centre for Bariatric Surgery

Now it's easier to contact Dr Yuan Cheng.

Sleeve gastrectomy is one of the proven weight loss surgical options for patients battling obesity.

Please join us and find out if this is a procedure that will help you.

The presenter is Mr. Yuan Cheng, Bariatric Surgeon. You will learn from his experience from helping hundreds of bariatric patients. You will also be able to ask questions and get your concerns addressed.

Focus on Sleeve Gastrectomy - Live Webinar from ECBS. Presented by Mr. Yuan Cheng.

Dumping Syndrome. Can happen after gastric bypass and to a lesser degree after sleeve gastrectomy.

Do you suffer abdominal pain, diarrhoea and bloating after eating? Or do you feel sweating, palpitations or even become drowsy or unconscious with food rich in sugar?

Dumping syndrome can often be missed and mismanaged. We will be talking about dumping syndrome in our next Event "Focus on Gastric Bypass", Live this Saturday.

Nature Reviews (Endocrinology) published a very comprehensive article on "International consensus on the diagnosis and management of dumping syndrome" in Aug 2020. Well worth a read. 🧐
https://rdcu.be/b74xm

International consensus on the diagnosis and management of dumping syndrome Dumping syndrome is a frequent complication of oesophageal and gastric surgery, as well as bariatric surgery; however, guidance on how to manage patients with this condition is lacking. In this Evidence-based guideline, the authors use a Delphi consensus process to develop uniform guidance for the d...

A good introduction and summary on bariatric surgery from NY Times.

The Underused Weight Loss Option: Bariatric Surgery Experts say it can result in long-term weight loss and significantly improve physical and emotional health and even longevity.

All previously booked operations will continue until the end of this week. Then all Cat 3 operations will be suspended until further notice.

Urgent operations are not affected and we continue to see both new and review patients via Telehealth or face-to-face based on clinical requirement.

Please stay safe and take care!

The suspension of Category 3 operations means most of bariatric (weight loss) surgeries will be delayed and rescheduled. However there are still no clear words on when this will take effect.

We understand the stress this new announcement might have caused for our patients. We will try to clarify the details and update you as soon as more information comes to light.

Stay safe and take care!

COVID-19 UPDATE

Consultations:
We continue to welcome all new and review patients.
We encourage using Telehealth for all your consults.
Face-to-face consultations are available from Richmond office if required.

Operations:
Private operations are continuing at 75% capacity.
Current bookings are not affected.

Hospital admissions:
COVID-19 testing is required before all operations.
Epworth Hospital will contact you to arrange testing.
All patients are required to remain in self-isolation after testing until your admission to hospital.

Epworth Hospital COVID-19 update link:
https://www.epworth.org.au/who-we-are/coronavirus-update