Lead Sponsor

Duke University

Collaborators

Age

18 - No limit years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•Patients 18 years of age or older
•Patients who will undergo a Roux-en-Y or gastric reduction procedures (sleeve gastrectomy or placation)
•Patients with a BMI between 40-60

•Patients under 18 years of age
•Patients participating in other competing research protocol(s)
•Patients for whom electrosurgery is contraindicated
•Patients unable to tolerate general anesthesia
•Patients who are pregnant
•Patients unwilling or unable to provide informed consent
•Patients who have undergone significant upper GI surgery leading to adhesion formation, as determined by the Principal Investigator.