{"id":24949,"date":"2017-04-12T11:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toh.wpengine.com\/en\/?p=24949"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:41:39","slug":"life-changing-surgery-lets-mom-and-son-have-fun-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/uncategorized\/life-changing-surgery-lets-mom-and-son-have-fun-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-changing surgery lets mom and son have fun together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>Nathalie Frappier showed off the phone app that helped prepare her for bariatric surgery in January and then guide her through her recovery. The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Bariatric Centre of Excellence recently earned prestigious accreditation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Six-year-old Jaycob Pigeon loves the change in his mom. Nathalie Frappier now has the energy and agility to play on the floor with her son, set up tents with blankets, and go for walks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust yesterday, he told me \u2018Mommy, you don\u2019t have to sleep all the time.\u2019 It\u2019s completely changed my life,\u201d said Frappier, who doesn\u2019t need to use a CPAP machine at night any more.<\/p>\n<p>The change came after having bariatric surgery in January at The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Bariatric Centre of Excellence. The centre recently earned prestigious accreditation from the American College of Surgeons under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, this is an amazing site with spectacular resources,\u201d said the official accreditation letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the third in Canada to be accredited,\u201d said Medical Director Dr. Amy Neville.<\/p>\n<p>Many patients have complex medical needs. <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawahospital.libguides.com\/c.php?g=487176&amp;p=3331944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bariatric surgery<\/a> is not about improving aesthetics but rather to help reduce the impact of diabetes, hypertension, chronic pain and other conditions they may have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re permanently altering their digestive system, so we need to ensure they don\u2019t end up with nutritional deficiencies, said Clinical Manager Michelle Foulkes. \u201cWe need to monitor their outcomes in the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To help support patients, the centre worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/seamless.md\/bariatric\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SeamlessMD<\/a> to develop an app, launched in September 2016. The popular app helps prepare patients for surgery by reinforcing education about healthy diet and exercise, what to expect at appointments, medications and more.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter img-responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YIMC-April-12-Bariatric-Graphic-EN_web.jpg\" alt=\"YIMC-April-12-Bariatric-Graphic-EN_web\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\"><\/p>\n<p>After surgery, the app sends patients an email every day for 30 days, asking about pain, nausea, vomiting, mood, nutrition and more. Depending on symptoms, patients are directed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consult the app\u2019s education section e.g. how to handle nausea.<\/li>\n<li>Call the nursing or dietitian line e.g. for unmanageable pain or dietary concerns<\/li>\n<li>Go to the Emergency Department, e.g. for sudden chest or calf pain that could indicate a blood clot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s empowering for them to manage their own care,\u201d said Foulkes. \u201cThe app has reduced the number of calls to the clinic.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter img-responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YIMC-April-12-Bariatric-app_web.jpg\" alt=\"YIMC-April-12-Bariatric-app_web\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The SeamlessMD app helps prepare patients for surgery by reinforcing education about healthy diet and exercise, what to expect at appointments, medications and more.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frappier loved the app and still uses the education section.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be asked every day how I\u2019m doing, that was reassuring,\u201d she said. \u201cThat relieved a lot of stress. I knew if something was wrong they would call me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frappier used to wear size 26 but she was down to size 16 in mid-March. She\u2019s looking forward to doing more fun activities she couldn\u2019t do before with Jaycob.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t go to the beach with him for the last three or four years, but this year I will go with him. We\u2019ll also go on rides at the fairs. We\u2019re going to do a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathalie Frappier showed off the phone app that helped prepare her for bariatric surgery in January and then guide her through her recovery. The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Bariatric Centre of Excellence recently earned prestigious accreditation. Six-year-old Jaycob Pigeon loves the change in his mom. Nathalie Frappier now has the energy and agility to play on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":24950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}