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Postop Opioids May Be Used over Longer Term
• Drug News • • Surgery • Mar 13 12
Opioid use after minor surgery significantly increased the likelihood of opioid use a year later among older, opioid-naive patients, Canadian investigators reported.
Patients who…
Future Study Aims To Assess The Outcomes Of Obesity Surgeries
• Obesity • • Surgery • Feb 28 12
Obesity represents a worldwide health problem with an increasing incidence among adults. For this reason the University of Bristol started a study named BY-BAND,…
Turkey: quadruple limb transplant fails
• Surgery • Feb 28 12
A 27-year-old Turkish man who underwent the world’s first would-be quadruple limb transplant died Monday, hours after the limbs were removed due to metabolic…
Study Identifies Steep Learning Curve for Surgeons Who Perform ACL Reconstructions
• Surgery • Feb 07 12
Patients who have their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructed by surgeons who have performed less than 60 surgeries are roughly four to five times…
Looking younger may be nose-job bonus
• Cosmetics • • Ear / Nose / Throat • • Surgery • Jan 20 12
In a new study of people who’d had surgery to reshape their sniffers, observers looking at before and after shots decided the patients looked…
Appendicitis racial disparities mostly unexplained
• Children's Health • • Surgery • Jan 19 12
Poverty and unfavorable health insurance account for only a small portion of the gap in the number of white versus Hispanic or black children…
Surgery complications down with better teamwork
• Surgery • Dec 21 11
Hospitals that introduced a program to boost communication and teamwork among doctors and nurses saw a decrease in surgery-related complications, according to a new…
Preoperative aspirin therapy can benefit cardiac surgery patients, find Jefferson and UC Davis anesthesiologists and surgeons
• Heart • • Surgery • Dec 05 11
Aspirin taken within five days of cardiac surgery is associated with a significant decrease in the risk of major postoperative complications, including renal failure,…
Time of Operation Doesn’t Affect Mortality after Surgery
• Mortality and Morbidity • • Surgery • Nov 28 11
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…
Blacks with diverticulitis have worse outcomes
• Surgery • Nov 22 11
Blacks need emergency surgery more often than whites for a common type of intestinal disease, and they tend to fare worse afterwards, suggests a…
Underweight people at higher post-surgery risk: study
• Obesity • • Surgery • Nov 22 11
People who are underweight have a 40 percent higher risk of dying in the first month after surgery than patients who are overweight, according…
Pneumonia most common infection after heart surgery
• Infections • • Surgery • Nov 16 11
Pneumonia - not a deep incision surgical site infection - is the most common serious infection after heart surgery, according to new research (Abstract…
Medicare change tied to safer weight loss surgery
• Surgery • • Weight Loss • Nov 07 11
After Medicare changed its rules regarding coverage for weight loss surgeries in 2006, the cost for the procedures went down while safety measures increased,…
Doctors separate conjoined twins in California
• Surgery • Nov 02 11
Surgeons in northern California successfully separated 2-year-old identical twin girls conjoined at the chest and abdomen after a painstaking, daylong operation, doctors said on…
Children suffer unnecessarily from chronic postoperative pain
• Children's Health • • Pain • • Surgery • Oct 27 11
Are children suffering needlessly after surgery? UC Irvine anesthesiologists who specialize in pediatric care believe so.
An operation can be one of the most…
Surgery halts seizures in many epileptics: study
• Epilepsy • • Surgery • Oct 14 11
Almost half of epilepsy patients who have surgery find that it stops their seizures completely for at least 10 years, scientists said on Friday,…
ADHD Drug May Help Wake People Up After Surgery
• Surgery • Sep 25 11
The drug Ritalin, prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), may help patients wake up after they’ve been placed under general anesthesia, a…
UCLA launches program to provide face, hand and abdominal wall transplants
• Cosmetics • • Surgery • Jul 13 11
In a major step into a new transplantation frontier, UCLA has established a first-of-its-kind program to restore functionality and enhance quality of life for…
Obese patients less likely to develop and die from respiratory distress syndromes after surgery
• Obesity • • Surgery • Jul 11 11
Researchers have discovered that obese adults undergoing surgery are less frequently developing respiratory insufficiency (RI) and adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and that when…
Surgical Complications Twelve Times More Likely in Obese Patients
• Obesity • • Surgery • Jun 29 11
Obese patients are nearly 12 times more likely to suffer a complication following elective plastic surgery than their normal-weight counterparts, according to new research…
Severe complications from cataract surgery decline
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Surgery • Jun 20 11
Serious, potentially blinding complications from cataract eye surgery are uncommon, and have been declining since the 1990s, a new U.S. study finds.
A cataract…
Noisy operations associated with increased infections after surgery
• Infections • • Surgery • Jun 01 11
Patients who undergo surgery are more likely to suffer surgical site infections (SSIs) if the operating theatre is noisy, according to research published in…
Is carpal tunnel syndrome cultural?
• Arthritis • • Surgery • May 25 11
Every year, just more than four out of every thousand Swedish women are diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful condition caused by a…
Culture barrier may affect surgeon job satisfaction
• Surgery • Apr 26 11
A new study suggests that surgeons who treat a high proportion of Hispanic patients tend to be less happy with their jobs than their…
Jefferson doctors strengthen case for high-dose radiotherapy technique after radical prostatectomy
• Cancer: Prostate • • Surgery • • Urine Problems • Apr 13 11
A widely-available yet expensive radiotherapy technique used to treat prostate cancer patients after surgery has promising benefits—higher dose and less damage to the rectum…