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.
Do you require advice?
What does the gastric sleeve consist of?
The gastric sleeve or gastric sleeve consists of reducing the size of the stomach to avoid excesses without altering intestinal transit.
How long does gastric sleeve surgery last?
The duration of the gastric sleeve The gastric sleeve is a bariatric surgery that can last from 1 to two hours.
What are the surgical techniques for gastric sleeve or gastric sleeve.
- The gastric sleeve can be performed open.
- By minimally invasive laparoscopy.
What are the risks of gastric sleeve?
The following risks of gastric sleeve or gastric sleeve that may occur but in very low percentages.
- Gastric sleeve or gastric sleeve and fistulas: Fistulas can occur after the gastric sleeve, they are leaks due to the incisions that were made when the new stomach was made.
- Stenosis: The sleeve requires creating new junctions of the intestine, it is very tight, food stagnates and produces vomiting.
- Bleeding:They are complications of any type of bariatric surgery because the unions must heal without setbacks but bleeding may occur.
- Sleeve and infections: The gastric sleeve must make cuts and sutures to reattach, therefore infections may occur.
- Gastric sleeve and anesthesia: like all bariatric surgery, it has risks that are accentuated in very low percentages in certain patients – Blood clots.
- The gastric sleeve or gastric sleeve: can bring some type of lung during surgery and certain hours afterward.
Gastric sleeve surgery recovery
Recovery from gastric sleeve surgery takes one week but it will take a couple of weeks to recover your normal way of eating since your stomach is smaller and you get used to eating smaller portions.Gastric sleeve before and after Before gastric sleeve
The specialist suggests diets aimed at improving, stabilizing and conditioning your state of health so that it is the most stable at the time of your gastric sleeve surgery.After gastric sleeve
Gastrectomy or gastric sleeve can achieve long-term weight loss and you are expected to lose 55% of your excess weight until you reach a caloric balance that allows you to burn or consume the same calories as you eat daily.
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Frequent questions
It is not up to the patient to choose whether the sleeve or the gastric bypass, the specialist decides according to his diagnosis and according to the psychiatrist who decides which is the most favorable for the patient.
No, in healthy patients and in normal conditions, it is not the gastric sleeve that fails, but the patient.
Those who return to their old eating habits can once again expand the sleeve that is the new stomach until obesity occurs again.
Any type of bariatric surgery is invasive but is measured by the amount of modifications to the digestive system, in other words it could be said that the sleeve modifies the stomach but not the natural intestinal transit.
On the other hand, gastric bypass does, but that does not mean that the complication statistics are higher or significant compared to the sleeve.
- Have a BMI greater than 35
- Having diseases derived from being overweight
- Having tried diets for more than a year without success.
You cannot choose between the sleeve or the bypass because you choose the most economical one, you must choose the one you really need.
Synonyms:
Obesity:
It is considered a disease that consists of accumulating more fat than the body needs until reaching overweight.
Sleeve:
New stomach in a smaller tubular shape that is why it is called gastric sleeve
Sleeve:
It is the meaning of manga in English
Restrictive:
Restricts decreases, reduces stomach capacity.
Laparoscopy:
It is a surgical modality that has advantages because the bariatric surgeon introduces forceps, a miniature lamp and other instruments to handle the forceps from the outside to simulate the functionality of the hands but without opening the abdomen.
Minimally invasive:
This is the advantage of bariatric surgery applied to the gastric sleeve because complications are avoided.
Bariatric:
BARI: Comes from the Greek Barys or baros relating to weight, ATRICA means surgical medical treatment, which means medical treatment of weight.
Energy imbalance:
In the case of obesity, we speak of energy imbalance when there are excess calories in relation to the calories consumed during the day.
Stenosis:
The word stenosis is mentioned when the sutures are very tight and there is stagnation of food, intestinal obstruction. For this reason, dilation must be resorted to without the need to go to the operating room.
Gastric:
It is used when referring to the stomach.
