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For back, neck pain, artificial disc replacement has cost, outcome advantages over fusion surgery
• Pain • • Surgery • Mar 22 11
When physical therapy and drugs fail to relieve back or neck pain, patients often turn to spinal fusion surgery as a last resort, but…
Men Fuel Rebound in Cosmetic Surgery
• Cosmetics • • Surgery • Mar 22 11
Statistics released today (3/21/11) by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) show that more men are going under the knife. Overall cosmetic plastic…
Safe to quit smoking before surgery, anytime
• Surgery • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 17 11
Despite earlier concerns, quitting smoking in the few weeks before a surgery doesn’t seem risky for patients, according to a new study.
Earlier work…
Computerized Tomography Scanning Offers New Uses in Oral Surgery Recovery
• Dental Health • • Surgery • Mar 03 11
Journal of Oral Implantology – Computerized tomography (CT) has proved a useful tool in reconstructive dental implant surgery where a bone graft is required.…
Portable, Less Costly Peritoneal Dialysis Shows No Additional Catheter Risk Factors
• Surgery • • Urine Problems • Mar 03 11
Patients with end-stage renal disease who opt for peritoneal dialysis experience no greater risk of catheter infection than those who undergo hemodialysis, a retrospective…
Alcohol linked to complications after joint surgery
• Surgery • • Trauma & Injuries • Feb 21 11
The more people drink before having a hip or knee replaced, the higher their risk for complications right after the surgery, a new study…
Facelift Makes You Look 12 Years Younger
• Cosmetics • • Surgery • Feb 03 11
Patients who have undergone a facelift rate themselves as looking an average of 12 years younger after surgery, according to a study in the…
Taking Unpleasant Surprises Out of Cosmetic Surgery
• Cosmetics • • Surgery • Feb 01 11
For some plastic surgery patients, expectations are unrealistically high. Basing their hopes on the before-and-after albums offered in surgeons’ offices, they expect to achieve…
Too many narcotics prescribed after surgery: study
• Surgery • Jan 31 11
Many people who undergo urology procedures may be sent home with more narcotic painkillers than they need - leaving home medicine cabinets filled with…
Amputation vs. Revascularization in Critical Limb Ischemia Patients
• Surgery • Jan 28 11
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA have published a study in the February Journal of Vascular Surgery®…
Surgery for obstructive sleep apnea reduces daytime drowsiness
• Respiratory Problems • • Surgery • Jan 27 11
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea who undergo surgery to improve their breathing get a better night’s sleep and therefore are less drowsy during the…
NFL Linemen Recover from Back Surgery, and So Can You
• Backache • • Surgery • Jan 24 11
If NFL linemen can recover from back surgery and return to their spine-bruising careers, so can you get back into your “game” of horsing…
Rural residents more likely to get some surgeries
• Surgery • Jan 21 11
People living in rural areas were more likely to get nine different surgical procedures - including both elective and non-elective surgeries - compared to…
Hoarseness rare in kids with cleft palate: study
• Children's Health • • Ear / Nose / Throat • • Surgery • Jan 20 11
Kids born with cleft palate were no more likely than kids in the general population to suffer from hoarseness in a new study of…
Henry Ford Hospital study: Shoulder function not fully restored after surgery
• Surgery • Jan 17 11
Shoulder motion after rotator cuff surgery remains significantly different when compared to the patient’s opposite shoulder, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study.
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This new year, how motivated are you?
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • • Surgery • • Trauma & Injuries • Jan 05 11
Personal motivation may be the biggest factor in determining the length of time it takes for a patient to return to work following a…
Prenatal Knowledge of Cleft Lip/Palate Shows Little Advantage Over Birth Discovery
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • • Surgery • Nov 24 10
Many expectant parents look forward to routine ultrasounds as their first opportunity to “see” their baby. But the ultrasound can reveal that the fetus…
Surgical instruments left in children rarely fatal, but dangerous
• Public Health • • Surgery • Nov 16 10
Surgical items, such as sponges and small instruments, left in the bodies of children who undergo surgery are quite uncommon and rarely fatal but…
Airbags protect the kidneys during a crash
• Surgery • • Trauma & Injuries • • Urine Problems • Oct 26 10
Airbags not only protect people from head and chest injuries during car accidents, they may also protect individual organs - particularly the kidneys.
In…
Kryptonite superglue improving the quality of life in heart patients recovering from surgery
• Heart • • Surgery • Oct 25 10
New research shows that a surgical procedure using a cutting-edge super glue pioneered a year ago by Calgary researchers can improve the recovery of…
Cataract surgery saves lives, dollars by reducing auto crashes
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Surgery • Oct 19 10
Cataract surgery not only improves vision and quality of life for older people, but is also apparently a way to reduce the number of…
Studies Reveal a Need to Identify and Implement a Screening Procedure for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Prior to Surgery
• Neurology • • Obesity • • Surgery • Oct 18 10
As Americans get heavier and heavier, the incidence of obstructive sleep apnea increases, and results from two clinical studies presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2010 reinforce…
Children’s agitation after surgery may be preventable
• Children's Health • • Surgery • Oct 10 10
Temporary combativeness after surgery—a complication affecting up to half of anesthetized children—may be preventable with drugs that decrease epinephrine production, according to a Medical…
Video gaming prepares brain for bigger tasks
• Brain • • Neurology • • Surgery • Sep 25 10
Playing video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a new study has shown. Reorganisation…
Study examines sepsis and septic shock after surgery
• Surgery • Jul 20 10
Sepsis and septic shock appear to be more common than heart attacks or pulmonary blood clots among patients having general surgery, and the death…