By Roni Caryn Rabin The odds that a Medicare patient will die after undergoing one of eight high-risk operations have fallen sharply, an analysis of medical records has found. Fewer hospitals are performing these procedures, and the hosp ...
Continue Reading...by Christina Frangou Vancouver, British Columbia—Mayo Clinic researchers are calling for all young patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) to undergo preoperative testing for Lynch syndrome as the results can significantly alter surgic ...
Continue Reading...By Christina Frangou “SCIP adherence was neither associated with a lower surgical site infection rate at the patient level, nor with lower hospital surgical site infection rates,” said lead author Mary Hawn, MD, MPH, associate professo ...
Continue Reading...by Christina Frangou Washington—For residents who are dreading next year’s American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE), there’s a new free study tool that’s much lighter to carry around than a textbook. Apple Inc., recent ...
Continue Reading...Electromagnetic radiation generated by cell phones is "possibly carcinogenic" to humans, the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer concludes. According to a WHO press release, an international working group of 31 scientists ...
Continue Reading...by Gabriel Miller National Harbor, Md.—When versions of the Sunshine Act were originally passed in states like Massachusetts and Vermont in 2008 and 2009, there were running jokes in the exhibition halls of surgical society meetings arou ...
Continue Reading...Two thirds of patients who experience a myocardial infarction during or shortly after noncardiac surgery do not have ischemic symptoms, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine study. Researchers followed a cohort of some 8350 ...
Continue Reading...Contact Information: EPA Press Office press@epa.gov WASHINGTON – During detailed filter analyses from 12 RadNet air monitor locations across the nation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified trace amounts of radioac ...
Continue Reading...Complications following total joint arthroplasty are significantly related to alcohol misuse in the year prior to surgery, according to a study published in the Feb. 16 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. Alex ...
Continue Reading...Article Date: 07 Feb 2011 - 0:00 PST From: www.medicalnewstoday.com Surgeons of the future might use a system that recognizes hand gestures as commands to control a robotic scrub nurse or tell a computer to display m ...
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