Jun 29, 2015

A Kentucky appeals court recently ruled that a surgeon was not responsible for a burn caused by an instrument that had been removed from an autoclave and placed on an anesthetized patient's abdomen. ...

Jun 22, 2015

According to recent data, surgical site infections (SSIs) are common complications in acute care facilities, occurring in 2% to 5% of patients undergoing inpatient surgery. Approximately 160,000 to 30...

Jun 22, 2015

According to current estimates, more than 300,000 patients—mostly people aged 65 and older—sustain a hip fracture each year in the United States, and the annual incidence is expected to exceed 500...

Jun 15, 2015

A woman in California is suing her obstetrician because he performed an episiotomy that she had specifically requested not be done. A relative of the patient shot a video of the entire delivery, Showe...

May 28, 2015

According to current estimates, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among North American men, with more than 33,000 dying from the disease in 2013. For men with androgen-sensi...

May 26, 2015

Now I'm really worried about surgical education. Here's why: A friend told me that a new attending on his staff was having some problems. Although the young surgeon was a graduate of 5 years of gen...

May 26, 2015

The big health system that owns the hospital where I do much of my elective scheduled surgery has recently embraced the “Just Culture” model of peer review. A part of this change is the eliminatio...

May 25, 2015

Management of pain is a critical aspect of postoperative care in pediatric urology. Currently, clinicians who aim to control postoperative pain in children use a combination of both opioids and anti-i...

May 25, 2015

New research was presented at AATS 2015, the annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, from April 25 to 29 in Seattle. The features below highlight some of the studies emerging ...

May 18, 2015

This video features Sanjay Sethi, MD, and one of his patients who uses the Lung Flute. This device has been prescribed by doctors all over the USA and has been clinically proven to provide natural res...

May 11, 2015

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears are among the most common injuries that occur in athletes participating in high-demand sports. Research has shown that people who suffer these injuries are at hi...

May 04, 2015

A legislator in Wisconsin is proposing a bill that would require facilities to record both video and audio of any operation requiring general anesthesia if requested by a patient. The focus is apparen...

Apr 27, 2015

Many published studies on bariatric surgery are retrospective, short-term analyses with insufficient follow-up. “Obesity is a chronic illness that is linked to important comorbidities,” says Nancy...

Apr 27, 2015

New research was presented at AAOS 2015, the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, from March 24 to 28 in Las Vegas. The features below highlight some of the studies emerging...

Apr 20, 2015

Studies have shown that atrial fibrillation (AF) and flutter affect more than 33 million people throughout the world, and the presence of chronic AF has been associated with a three-fold greater risk ...

Apr 13, 2015

There was a time, during my training and early in my career when the trauma surgeon was the fighter pilot of the surgical world. We were the Top Knives, the Master Surgeons, of our respective hospital...

Apr 13, 2015

Renal artery stenosis (RAS)—narrowing of the renal arteries—is often asymptomatic, but studies show that it may lead to hypertension or worsening of blood pressure (BP) control. If left untreated,...

Apr 13, 2015

Studies have shown that people with diabetes are about 10 times more likely to undergo a lower extremity amputation (LEA) than those without the disease. About 90% of diabetics who undergo an LEA have...

Apr 06, 2015

The following depicts the population aged 65 and older by number of disabilities and age, based on data from 2008 to 2012. ...

Apr 02, 2015

I’m on day 5 of an 8-day run of Port-and-Starboard trauma call (Navy talk for every other night) and am feeling my age. There was a time when I could do this for weeks at a time and still have the e...