| The last 2 decades have offered the weight loss | | | | inserted into a patient's throat using an attached thin |
| market a variety of different surgical and cosmetic | | | | tube before being inflated (pumped} with saline. As |
| procedures for combating obesity – gastric | | | | these 2 oval shape balloons are inflated, patients will |
| bypass and laparoscopic gastric band included. | | | | begin to feel full and will naturally be able to reduce |
| However despite the Centres for Medicare and | | | | their meal portions and start losing their weight. |
| Medicaid Services directive in 2006 which required the | | | | More importantly, once patients reach their target |
| regulations that all Medical Centres and Cosmetic | | | | weight loss goal, this balloon device can easily be |
| Centres to have qualified and experiences cosmetic | | | | deflated and removed from the stomach without |
| surgeons and equipment, these types of weight loss | | | | being surgically removed. |
| surgeries are still incredibly risky and life threatening. | | | | As we speak, this balloon device is planned to |
| Even considering the fact that recent modifications | | | | perform its first clinical trial soon where 30 volunteers |
| where complication rates have dropped by 2.2% | | | | across 3 medical centres will be implanted with this |
| from 12.2% of patients to 10%, and the 30 day | | | | device. Should it prove safe and effective, this |
| mortality have reduced from 0.28% to 0.20%. These | | | | research will be applied to 350 volunteers across 10 |
| improvements are not enough when you add to the | | | | medical centres and eventually will be presented to |
| equation the percentage of obese individuals who | | | | the FDA for approval. |
| willing to undergo these surgeries every single year. | | | | Is the balloon safe? Does it work? |
| However, this could soon all be changing on the | | | | It is undisputable that this double balloon mechanism |
| horizon for obese patients if the ReShape Medical's | | | | could potentially help hundreds of consumers who are |
| dual action balloon system is approved by the FDA | | | | either too young for gastric bypasses or suffer from |
| (Food and Drug Administration). | | | | diabetes, heart disease and severe joint problems to |
| Click here for Safe and Fast Weight Loss | | | | lose weight, but this dual action balloon has got a long |
| Designed to help obese patients who fall just below | | | | way to go before it is approved. |
| or above the BMI guidelines for gastric bypass and | | | | In 1984 a similar single balloon device was created by |
| laparoscopic gastric band placements surgeries or | | | | Garren-Edwards and was implanted into patients. |
| who are considered to be too young (under18) for | | | | However, with no backup membrane to protect it |
| such intensive surgeries; the double-balloon | | | | from punctures, this balloon device was prone to |
| mechanism or device could easily support this | | | | bursting or leaking and entering into the small intestine |
| overlooked group of individuals. | | | | where it caused serious blockages. As a result this |
| How does it work? | | | | product was quickly taken off the market. |
| In its current condition, the double-balloon system is | | | | |