Nutritional status monitoring, including blood work to evaluate vitamin and mineral supplementation regimes, should continue after surgery, and over the lifetime of the bariatric surgical patient. Specific guidelines vary based on the procedure. The 2013 AACE/TOS/ASMBS bariatric surgery guidelines (3) provide a postoperative checklist by type of procedure in Table 6. This checklist includes recommendations for:
- follow-up nutrition and metabolic consultations
- recommended