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Time Of Operation Doesn't Affect Mortality After Surgery
The timing of surgical procedures afternoon versus morning or Friday versus Monday doesn't affect the risk of death after surgery, concludes a study in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)...
Shortages Of Surgical Drugs May Pose Threats To Patient Safety
The United States is facing ongoing shortages of several critical anesthesia medications shortages with potentially serious effects on patient care and safety, according to a special article in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)...
Time Of Operation Doesn't Affect Mortality After Surgery
The timing of surgical procedures afternoon versus morning or Friday versus Monday doesn't affect the risk of death after surgery, concludes a study in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)...
How To Create Safer Surgery To Save More Lives
Surgical procedures save and improve lives worldwide, but the figures on serious complications and deaths are high. PhD student Sindre Høyland sees ways of reducing these numbers. "Large numbers and large variations in the numbers indicate that improvements are possible," says Høyland at the University of Stavanger (UiS)...
Precancerous Skin Lesions - Advantages Of Laser Removal
According to a study in the November/December issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, carbon dioxide laser ablation (removal) may provide an alternative treatment for lentigo maligna, a common pre-cancerous skin lesion, when radiation treatment or surgery is not possible...
Cardica Enrolls First Patients In European MicroCutter™ Clinical Study
Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) announced that the first patients have been enrolled and discharged from the first two investigative sites in a European clinical study to evaluate its MicroCutter™ surgical cutting/stapling devices for transections, resections and anastomoses during gastrointestinal surgical procedures...
Laser Removal May Be Advantageous For Treating Precancerous Skin Lesions
Carbon dioxide laser ablation (removal) may have a role as an alternative treatment for a common precancerous skin lesion known as lentigo maligna when surgery or radiation therapy is not feasible, according to a report in the November/December issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
Black Elderly More Likely Than Whites To Die After Intestinal Surgery
Black senior citizens who need surgery for the intestinal disorder diverticulitis are significantly more likely to die in the hospital than their equally ill white counterparts, even when each racial group carries the same health insurance, new Johns Hopkins research suggests...
Patient Has Buttocks Injected With Flat-tire Sealant, Cement And Mineral Oil By Fake Doctor
In a "cosmetic surgery" procedure, a woman's buttocks were filled with flat-tire sealant, mineral oil and cement, and then sealed with super-glue by an apparently transgender woman, Oneal Ron Morris, claiming to be a doctor - Morris had never studied medicine. The victim had sought a curvier body and a larger bottom in her quest to find employment at a nightclub...
Hospital For Special Surgery Receives $1 Million Gift For The Mary And Fred Trump Institute For Implant Analysis
Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump, Robert Trump and Elizabeth Trump Grau have provided Hospital for Special Surgery with a $1 million gift in support of and to name the Institute for Implant Analysis in honor of their parents, the late Mary and Fred Trump...
Surgical Leaders Announce Creation Of Collaborative Spine Research Foundation To Fund Spine-Care Research
Two flagship foundations for advancing spine care through support for research, the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), announced today a collaborative grant program that will broadly cultivate multidisciplinary clinical spine research...
During The Great American Smokeout, Remember There's Value In Stopping Smoking Before Surgery
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) strongly supports the Great American Smokeout because smoking can negatively impact surgical outcomes. In order to have the best possible results, it is important for patients to stay off cigarettes for as long as they can before and after surgery...
Spinal Surgery Becomes More Cost-Effective Over Time
For specific causes of back pain, spinal surgery provides a good value over long-term follow-up, compared to nonsurgical treatment, concludes a report in the November 15th issue of Spine. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Patients Fare Just As Well If Their Nonemergency Angioplasty Is Performed At Hospitals Without Cardiac Surgery Capability
Hospitals that do not have cardiac surgery capability can perform nonemergency angioplasty and stent implantation as safely as hospitals that do offer cardiac surgery. That is the finding of the nation's first large, randomized study to assess whether patients do just as well having nonemergency angioplasty performed at smaller, community hospitals that do not offer cardiac surgery...
Low Oxygen Is Key Factor Affecting Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury
Low oxygen supply (hypoxia) to vulnerable brain tissue is a major contributor to the risk of death or major disability after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), reports a study in the November issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. Led by Dr...
VCU Performs Separation Surgery On Conjoined Twins
A team of Virginia Commonwealth University pediatric surgeons today successfully completed the separation of 19-month-old conjoined twins Maria and Teresa Tapia of the Dominican Republic. The complex, 20-hour procedure commenced Monday around 6 a.m. and was the first surgery of its kind at the Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU. Led by David Lanning, M.D., Ph.D...
Low Rates Of Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy In Canada
Few patients in Canada undergo breast reconstruction after mastectomy, despite its safety as a procedure and the positive psychological benefits, states a review article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). The article reviews rates of breast reconstruction and factors that influence the practice of immediate reconstruction in patients with early stage breast cancer...
Knee Replacements Up Dramatically For Adults 45 To 64 Years Old
Women and men ages 45 to 64 were 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized for knee replacement surgery in 2009 than in 1997, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)...
Low Vitamin D Common In Spine Surgery Patients
A new study indicates that many patients undergoing spine surgery have low levels of vitamin D, which may delay their recovery. In a study of 313 patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery, orthopaedic surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that more than half had inadequate levels of vitamin D, including one-fourth who were more severely deficient...
Anti-Clotting Drugs Do Not Increase Bleeding Risk In GI Procedure, Mayo Study Finds
Patients with recent use of aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), or anti-clotting drugs such as clopidogreal (Plavix) do not appear to have an increased risk of bleeding during or after removal of precancerous lesions in the digestive tract, according to results of a Mayo Clinic study...