A Trip To The Dentist Could Cause Symptoms In Asthmatic Kids
...ldren participated in a total of 74 cleaning or operative visits or both. The researchers wanted to see if dental treatment caused a change in the children’s airways. Each child blew into a spirometer, a machine used to measure the volume of air in a lung. The researchers took spiromete...Standardization Of Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Offers Hope To Patients Nationwide
...ggiesaid. IPHC is then administered as part of the operative procedure. "The abdomen is perfused with a gently heated physiologic solution containingcancer fighting chemotherapy agents that wash over all the lining surfaces," hesaid. "This permits direct contact of very high cancer drug concentrations withrema......amine learning rates, the authors analyzed data on operative procedure times from a sample of 660 patients who underwent the new operation at 16 different institutions. All the teams participating were chosen because they were regarded as excellent in their field. All adopting hospitals received the same three...Honing the tools to identify clues to surviving cancer
...adiology and pathologyreports, diagnostic studies, operative notes and discharge summaries. SPINwill also draw upon expertise gained from Indianapolis Network for PatientCare (INPC), a data repository which stores encounter records, and clinicallaboratory data for use in care at emergency rooms citywide. In ...Surgery league tables could threaten access to care
... government. A further complication factor is that operative death is always attributed to the surgeon, but important influences such as anaesthetic care and intensive care resources are ignored, adds the author. In other words, surgeons may be criticised for their postoperative morbidity when compared with th...Episiotomy rates decreasing, but procedure still overused
...ages 15 to 44. Rates were compared for vaginal and operative deliveries, with both rates declining over time. D...for the first time. Surprisingly, women undergoing operative vaginal delivery, say with forceps or vacuum, were less likely to receive episiotomy than those who ...Laparoscopy for colon cancer could offer long-term survival benefit over conventional surgery
...ntional open surgery, with the potential to reduce operative complications, hospital stay, and increase cancer-related survival in the longer term. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in Western countries. Prognosis associated with this disease has improved due to early diagno...Operating on a beating heart shows benefit in elderly
...of artery or vein grafts, and age and gender. The operative mortality death occurring within 30 days of surgery was 15.9 percent in the on-pump group and 4.8 percent in the off-pump group. Four postoperative strokes occurred in the on-pump group and none in the off-pump group. Another important difference...Experienced surgeon reduces complications from minimally invasive 'stomach staple' surgery
...nown as laparoscopic gastric bypass, had a shorter operative time, reduced hospital stay and fewer complications when the surgeon had performed more than 75 procedures. The study also found that men and older patients were more susceptible to postoperative problems. Patients in the study were considered morbi...UCLA study finds surgeon experience level critical
...ied as high- or low-volume depending on cumulative operative experience in 1997 and 1998. Low-volume surgeons had twice the in-hospital complication rate of high-volume surgeons, and their patients were hospitalized one day longer on average. After adjusting for physician volume, hospital case volume was not s...Outpatient setting very safe for skin cancer surgery
...that indicated significant delayed bleeding at the operative site Wound dehiscence -- partial or complete separation of the wound edges after sutures had been placed Wound infection -- an infection of the surgical site Skin flap or skin graft necrosis -- partial tissue loss of skin used to reconstruct the...Women feel unprepared for operative deliveries
...enatal classes do not adequately prepare women for operative deliveries (caesarean sections, use of ventouse or...Researchers interviewed 27 women who had undergone operative delivery in the second stage of labour at two UK hospitals between 2000 and 2002. Many women felt un...Regionalizing some surgical procedures would not result in unreasonable travel burdens on patients
...Association (JAMA). "For many surgical procedures, operative mortality [death] rates are substantially lower at hospitals that perform them more frequently," the authors write in background information. "As a result, concentrating selected procedures in higher-volume hospitals is advocated by many. ... Previou...Infants could benefit from early ultrasound screening for hip dysplasia
...he investigators calculated the incidence of first operative procedures for the rate of hip dysplasia as occurring in around 1 in 4000 births. Rudiger von Kries comments: "Ultrasound screening seems to prevent many, but not all, operations for developmental hip dysplasia. Rates of timely screening (i.e., befor...MUHC researchers develop new way to test for sleep apnea in children
...rst cases of OSA and fast-track these patients for operative treatment. Using pulse oximetry, dips in blood oxygen levels associated with sleep-related airway blockage are used to prioritize children needing urgent treatment. Dr. Robert Brouillette, MUHC pediatrician and professor of Pediatrics at McGill Univ...Hospital volume may not be best criteria for selecting hospital for coronary bypass surgery
...ng fewer than 500 procedures per year. The overall operative mortality was 2.66 percent. After adjusting for patient risk and clustering effects, rates of operative mortality decreased with increasing hospital CABG volume (0.07 percent for every 100 additional CABG...Robotic surgery for young heart patients shortens hospital stay and speeds recovery, study indicates
... than 10 kilograms, and can reduce hospital stays, operative trauma, cosmetic impact and overall recovery time. And we found it does so with an acceptable impact on a patient's time in the OR." Despite the added expense of operating room time and the robot itself, Ohye feels that the machine will more than of...Death rates for certain complex surgeries lower at teaching hospitals
...ite. "Specifically, teaching hospitals have lower operative mortality rates for pancreatic, hepatic, and esophageal resections compared with non-teaching hospitals, but these differences can be attributed to higher volume at teaching hospitals. Further studies should concentrate on the structure and process ...NHS reforms have left no time to train surgeons
...ees arrive at posts without any real competence in operative skills as basic as suturing. "We cannot rely on highly able and motivated trainees and trainers to struggle on like this. Surgical training must be recognised as a priority," say the authors. Most current trainees are supposed to become the new "gene...Two-stage weight loss surgery for high-risk, morbidly obese patients reduces surgical risk
...roscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), greatly reduces operative risk and results in significant short-term weight ...tric surgery management because of their excessive operative risk," said Philip Schauer, M.D., assistant professor of surgery and director of bariatric surgery a...