Surgery General
Oct 21, 2013
Weight loss surgery (WLS) has been an effective treatment for many patients with clinically severe obesity and comorbid medical conditions. Despite its merits, WLS requires major lifestyle changes f...
Oct 16, 2013
An “intelligent knife” that can immediately determine whether tissue is healthy or cancerous was 100% accurate in the first study to test the device in the operating room. Known as the iKnife, ...
Oct 15, 2013
The Particulars: Time spent in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) has been identified as a source of much patient morbidity in previous studies. The incidence of PACU complications was last quantifi...
Oct 15, 2013
The Particulars: Anecdotal evidence suggests that less than half of first surgical cases of the day start on time in some operating rooms (ORs) throughout the United States. Starting surgery in a more...
Oct 14, 2013
The Particulars: Postoperative delirium (PD) occurs in about 20% of elderly patients, according to previous research. However, the mechanisms of PD have not been well defined. A better understanding o...
Oct 14, 2013
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), more than 200,000 adults and 6,000 children have in-hospital cardiac arrests (IHCAs) each year, and survival has remained relatively unchanged for de...
Oct 13, 2013
The Particulars: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is common among surgical patients. Studies indicate that morbidly obese patients undergoing general anesthesia for bariatric surgery can exper...
Oct 12, 2013
The Particulars: Data indicate that more than 80% of tonsillectomies are performed to correct breathing disorders that affect sleep, mostly sleep apnea. A previous study found that children with sleep...
Oct 09, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC—Researchers at the University of Michigan Department of Surgery have begun testing an alternative to embryonic stem cells that could one day regenerate muscle tissue for babies with c...
Oct 08, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC— Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, have taken the first steps to determine if a protein, called Programmed Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1), can help to pred...
Oct 08, 2013
New research was presented at Anesthesiology 2013, the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologist, from October 12 to 16 in San Francisco. Meeting Highlights IV Acetaminophen f...
Oct 08, 2013
The Particulars: Among the elderly, research suggests that elective colon resection is associated with poor perioperative outcomes. Using a laparoscopic approach to colon resection in the elderly may ...
Oct 08, 2013
The Particulars: Medicare reduces compensation rates for hospitals with high readmission rates. However, many hospitals can only track same-hospital readmissions. It has not been established if same-h...
Oct 08, 2013
The Particulars: Studies have suggested that morbidity and mortality rates are worse among patients undergoing surgeries performed during the weekend, leading to a phenomenon dubbed the “weekend eff...
Oct 08, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC—Women with early-stage breast cancer in one breast are increasingly opting to undergo a more aggressive operation to remove both breasts called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (...
Oct 08, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC—People over 60 years old are more likely to have precancerous or cancerous polyps develop in a part of the colon that goes unseen by flexible sigmoidoscopy, a common screening test fo...
Oct 08, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC—New combinations of postoperative pain treatment decreased both pain and the use of narcotic pain relievers according to two studies presented this week at the 2013 Clinical Congress ...
Oct 08, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC—Patients with bladder cancer are two times more likely to have complications after a radical cystectomy procedure if they have a biomarker for poor nutritional status before the opera...
Oct 08, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC—A University of Michigan surgeon has found a way to successfully perform laparoscopic gallbladder removal in Nicaragua, despite limited clinical resources and poor operating room cond...
Oct 07, 2013
New research is being presented at ACS 2013, the American College of Surgeons 2013 Annual Clinical Congress, from October 6-10 in Washington, DC. Meeting Highlights No Weekend Effect With Appen...