PREMIUM PACKAGES
Gastric Bypass Bariatric Surgery Packages in Colombia
Why choose a surgical package with Guiavital?
- Because since 2005 we know that the results of EXCELLENCE are in the hands of specialists whose experience and support of thousands of patients treated far exceed the certifications.
- Our SUCCESS lies in the fact that in 2005 when we chose our specialists they already accumulated years of expertise and today 17 years later we continue to trust them for their great results, compliance and warmth.
- Because with Guiavital our patients have the PRIVILEGE of accessing the best in clinics, the latest technologies and advanced techniques to obtain optimal results.
- Because all our specialists are certified, meet the highest quality standards and have all the requirements.
Personalized service
Why is your Guiavital Manager your right hand?
Your Guiavital Manger offers you permanent, warm and friendly personalized attention that relieves you of the preparation, programming and scheduling of each activity during your stay, it will be your support throughout the entire process.
Global Health Concierge: Forget about preparation, programming and scheduling, your Guiavital Manger does it all for you.
Top Medical Team: We have known the degree of excellence of our surgeons for more than 17 years. Experience is everything.
Top Rated Hospitals:State-of-the-art clinics with exceptional technology and comfort, at the level of clinics in the USA , EU.
Total Quality Comfort: The best in quality accommodation, transfers, food and tourism.
Safest Médical Package: More robust policies in USD for surgical eventualities, and direct payment policies for companions
How do you start?
As soon as you activate your E – Card, your Guiavital Manager is in charge of helping you put together your surgical package, scheduling all your video consultations, your entire agenda of activities, let her take care of all the details.
1. Acquire:
As soon as you activate your E-Card, your Guiavital Manager explains everything about your surgical package and schedules your video consultation with your surgeon.
2. Video Consultation
Your first video consultation with your surgeon, ask everything and resolve all your doubts. (included in the value of the E card)
3. Know costs.
On the day of your video consultation we give you everything in writing. Your Guiavital Manager gives you your package with definitive costs.
4. Reserve and freeze prices.
If you reserve your spot, we will freeze the cost of your surgery, you will have time to save and travel to have surgery with all the comforts.
Otros servicios...
Procedimientos para tus acompañantes.
- Short-stay dental treatments.
- Facial plastic and plastic surgery.
- Urological Surgery.
- Surgery for excessive sweating.
- Bariatric Surgery
- Anti-aging procedures (botox facial tightening threads)
Know your surgeon.
What happens in your first video consultation
Upload and share your medical history with your surgeon in Guiavital meeting, our video consultation platform.
Diagnosis and motivation: Without worry, your specialist listens and resolves all your concerns, delivers and motivates your medical concept, and explains the process.
Resolution of additional doubts: Send your doubts to your surgeon and he will answer them.
YOUR IDEAL SURGICAL PACKAGE
How do you customize your package?
- At Guiavital our patients remain advised and confident that everything will be previously insured.
- Ask your Guiavital manager about our packages scheduled in special seasons for summer, Christmas and Easter.
- Tell your Guiavital Manager your requirements and those of your companions and learn about special benefits for those dates.
- Add short-stay procedures for your companions, local tourism packages. We have a Guiavital e card that fits your travel group.
E - Card Guiavital
Bariatric surgery packages
Elige la E – Card de acuerdo a tu grupo de viaje.
E-CARD BLUE
USD 170.00
One-time payment membership
Valid for 1 patient and 1 companion
What's included?
- Guiavital Manager Permanent advice
- Video consultation with your specialist or surgeon
- Deadline to define travel dates and reserve your space: 1 month
- Freeze the price of your procedure
- Earn benefits by converting companions into patients
- You can add seasonal benefits
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E-CARD GOLD
USD 210.00
One-time payment membership
Valid for 1 patient and 2 companions
What's included?
- Guiavital Manager Permanent advice
- Video consultation with your specialist or surgeon
- Deadline to define travel dates and reserve your space: 4 Months.
- Freeze the price of the procedure
- Earn benefits by converting companions into patients
- You can add seasonal benefits
E-CARD FAMILY
USD 275.00
One-time payment membership
Max 2 patients and up to 2 companions
What's included?
- Guiavital Manager Permanent advice
- 2 Video consultations with surgeon, 1 for each patient
- Deadline to define travel dates and reserve your space: 6 months.
- Freeze prices of procedures
- Earn benefits by converting companions into patients
- You can add seasonal benefits
PREPARATION
Global Health Concierge:
Before you travel: Your Guíavital Manager is in charge of helping you schedule everything.
- Permanent comprehensive bilingual advice in each part of the process.
- Your Guíavital manager helps you find the package that best suits you.
- It helps you schedule your video consultations with your specialists.
Ya en Colombia: Tu Guiavital Manager se encarga de toda tu agenda.
- From your arrival at the airport until the day of your departure, your advisor is in charge of carrying out each scheduled activity.
- Complete assistance, tracking, scheduling and monitoring.
TO YOUR TASTE
Feeding:
- Your Guiavital Manager offers you different alternatives so that you can choose different types of food additions in the most comfortable way.
- Variety of restaurants with preferential prices.
- A variety of home delivery services: pharmacies, supermarkets, fast food, fruits and vegetables.
- Medicamentos básicos incluidos en el paquete quirúrgico.
- Posibilidad de adquirir medicamentos adicionales a precios favorables a través de farmacias locales con convenios.
COMFORT
Accommodation:
Do you want to feel at home?
- A spacious and comfortable apartment awaits you, located in exclusive areas near the clinic, office, and supermarkets.
- Very well furnished apartments with all the comforts.
- Green areas, Wifi, TV, refrigerator, air conditioning, washing machine, oven, and kitchen utensils, etc.
SECURITY
Transfers:
- You will always count on our support.
- Transportation to and from the airport in a high-end private vehicle with driver and translator.
- All transfers for your surgery are covered and you will remain in the company of a person from our organization.
- Ask your advisor about the season's tourist packages.
IMPREVISTOS
Pólizas en USD
Protección Integral para cirugías en el Extranjero: con Extra cobertura:
- Pólizas de Complicaciones Postoperatorias: Nuestros pacientes gozan de pólizas con doble respaldo.
- Seguro Internacional para acompañantes: Contamos con las mejores pólizas, Pólizas de Reembolso Inmediato en caso de un siniestro la compañia pagan al instante.
- Pólizas en USD, respaldadas por Re aseguradoras internacionales.
DOCUMENTATION
Advice on immigration documents:
- Guiavital Manager helps you organize travel documents.
- Advice and guidance to ensure entry and exit from the country without setbacks.
- Entry requirements (vaccines)
Recovery
Post-operative with less pain
- Our patients have access to state-of-the-art pre-surgical preparation to achieve a much more comfortable, faster Post-Surgery with less pain. (Included in certain packages)"
- It must begin a month before surgery and for this patients are sent to their country of origin. USA, Canada, Spain, Italy, Portugal.
Programming packages 2023
Receive specialized advice by acquiring our E-card.
Requieres Asesoria?
What are the risks of bariatric surgery with gastric bypass?
The risks and complications of Gastric bypass in Colombia are the same, so eventual and so low that it is more dangerous to continue trying to survive with obesity.
- Fistulas: Losses, leaks from the digestive system into the abdominal cavity.
- Stenosis:Tightening of the joints produces stagnation of food and vomiting.
- Bleeding: new unions or sutures that have difficulty healing.
- Infection: Infections in important incisions.
Before and after gastric bypass
Preoperative preparation depends on the objective set by the bariatric surgeon and his group of professionals.
It all depends on the patient’s body mass index and the health complications present.
- Stabilize your state of health in a comprehensive way to minimize complications during and after Gastric bypass.
- Respiratory exercises and moderate physical activity.
- The diet prior to bypass should be a low-calorie, high-protein diet mixed with natural food with fruits and vegetables suggested by the dietician.
- No alcohol, soda or stimulants such as caffeine.
After gastric bypass?
Gastric bypass causes fat loss and weight loss that could go up to 60% of the excess.
It is a gradual long-term weight loss that depends on changing your habits and your new lifestyle.
What are the pros and cons of Gastric bypass?
- It is more effective than the sleeve because it restricts the volume of the stomach and blocks the absorption of fats.
- It costs almost the same as the sleeve.
- Gastric bypass is more effective in patients with anxiety tendencies.
- Gastroesophageal reflux.
- Heart failure.
- Hypertension.
- Hyper cholesterinemia.
- Obstructive sleep apnea.
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Cerebrovascular accident.
- Sterility.
4 Key points about gastric bypass.
- Is gastric bypass new in Colombia?
- Why are there those who calmly face the risks of bariatric surgery?
- Why is Gastric Bypass more effective?
- Why could one bariatric doctor suggest the sleeve and another the gastric bypass?
The 5 most frequently asked questions about gastric bypass.
It is the bariatric surgeon and not the patient who decides the type of procedure that is best for each patient.
No, gastric bypass is as expensive as gastric sleeve but gastric bypass tests the skill of the bariatric surgeon due to its greater complexity.
Gastric bypass is considered more invasive because it is necessary to modify intestinal transit but the result is definitive.
Gastric bypass is recommended in patients with specific weight conditions, size, height and diseases associated with overweight that the bariatric surgeon evaluates.
No, he reaches a weight that is considered ideal according to his size and stabilizes.
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Frequent questions
The anesthesiologist is a qualified medical specialist with extensive training and extensive experience in providing anesthesia for the surgical management of overweight and obesity.
This is the specialist who will assist the patient to offer safe, adequate and calm anesthesia.
It is general anesthesia and it is very safe, currently there are a variety of very safe medications and monitoring that allow deep, controlled and supervised sleep under its effects while the intervention is performed.
In the pre-anesthetic consultation, personal history of previous illnesses, medications taken, surgical events and previous anesthetics are evaluated, allergies or reactions to medications are verified, important factors related to obesity are identified, such as being a snorer, having sleep apnea or other factors that may require special anesthesia resources.
It is the surgical technique that allows the bariatric surgeon to operate from the outside guided by an internal camera that is introduced with surgical instruments to replace the bariatric surgeon’s hands, thus avoiding opening the abdomen.
Definition: Obesity is related to accumulating too much body fat, it is considered a disease because it creates an energy imbalance, causing diseases that affect, damage and deteriorate the correct functioning of the body and shorten its life expectancy.
Gastric bypass
Cartagena
If you are outside of Colombia and want to have access to bariatric surgery packages in Cartagena, get advice.
Your GuíaVital advisor customizes the bypass or sleeve bariatric surgery package in Cartagena with everything.
- Transfers
- Nurse
- Clinic expenses and fees of the bariatric surgeon and his team.
- Policies and benefits for all your companions.
Is gastric bypass new in Colombia?
Neither in Colombia nor in the world, gastric bypass is the most common modality of bariatric surgery and has been performed in the United States for more than 40 years. The results are as favorable as in the entire world and obviously in Colombia where it has been carried out for more than 17 years.Why calmly face the risks of bariatric surgery?
Because they understood that nowadays bariatric surgery is so safe that complications even with gastric bypass are almost zero, It is believed that complications are so low that it is preferable to face a day in the life with minimal odds than to try to deal day and night with a nightmare that never ends. Gastric bypass also called gastric bypass surgery, surgical technique of bariatric surgery used to control overweight or morbid obesity.Why is Gastric Bypass more effective?
Pay attention to your bariatric surgeon, if he recommended the gastric sleeve it is because you do not need the gastric bypass. However, gastric bypass is more effective even in patients who do not cooperate.Why might a bariatric surgeon suggest sleeve over bypass?
Because gastric bypass tests suitability and all your surgical skills in bariatric surgery, the sleeve is less complicated. It is known that in certain cases it is possible that the sleeve may be suggested, which is the procedure that is easiest for those who do not have as much experience with bypass.Synonyms:
- Synonyms of Gastric bypass: Gastric bypass.
- Obesity: Disease resulting from the excessive accumulation of fat or adipose tissue.
- Laparoscopy: Surgical technique to operate from the outside and achieve minimal invasiveness.
- Minimally invasive: The opposite is invading and occurs when the abdomen is opened, therefore minimally invasive is entering a camera through some holes with instruments to cut, suture and modify from the outside. li>
- Bariatric: Means as it comes from the Greek Barys or baros which is related to weight, atrica related to surgical medical treatment, which means medical treatment of weight.
- Bariatric surgery: Set of surgical procedures used to achieve weight loss.
- Energy imbalance: Amount of calories supplied is higher than those consumed.
- Gastric: Relating to the stomach.
- Calories: A calorie could be defined as the amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water by one degree Celsius, from 14.5 degrees C to 15, degrees Celsius at a normal pressure of one atmosphere.
- Gastric Bypass: Bypass means jump, making fats “jump” and blocking the absorption of fats, which is why it is said to be poorly absorptive.
- Poorly absorptive: Blocks the absorption of fats and proteins.
- Gastrectomy: Trimming the stomach to restrict the volume of the stomach, which is why it is said that it is restrictive for them to pass through the first 10 cm of intestine after the duodenum.
- Duodenum: First section of the small intestine after the stomach.
- Restrictive: Reduce limits restrict the size of the stomach to eat less.
