Prevalence of cataracts expected to increase substantially in coming decades
...archers. "The large increase in cataract surgical procedures predicted for the U.S. population as a whole is also of significant health policy importance. Treatment for cataract already accounts for some 60 percent of vision-related Medicare expenditures. Further growth in this area will have a substantial e...Operative time increases when training surgical residents in the operating room
... operative time required to complete some surgical procedures associated with training surgical residents in the... academic surgeons performing four common surgical procedures before and after the introduction of a post-graduate resident into the operating room at a community...Continuous insulin monitoring does not raise hospital costs
...ronary artery. As many as 25 percent of adult CABG procedures in the U.S. are performed on patients with diabetes. Morbidity, death and risk of deep sternal would infections are higher in patients with diabetes who undergo CABG surgery than in those without diabetes. Evidence suggests that those poor outcomes a...Surgical skill increases survival for oesophageal cancer surgery
...outcome measures for all types of complex surgical procedures is inherently difficult. "However, the statistics ... a major factor in successful outcome of surgical procedures for a range of cancers, and may also suggest a potential beneficial effect of centralization of oeso...90 million Americans are burdened with inadequate health literacy
...logies, scientific jargon, and complicated medical procedures and forms. All of these aspects of the health system can be confusing to patients. Moreover, care providers frequently need to communicate with patients who have different language and cultural backgrounds. Culture and ethnicity may influence pati...Novel MRI technique provides clear images of blood flow
... the patency of grafts after bypass surgery, shunt procedures and points of attachment of blood vessels," Judd said. "There is also reason to believe that GCFP might ultimately play an important role in imaging the coronary arteries that supply the heart with blood," Judd continued. "Because of the small size o...Research questions transplant safety procedure
...than 700,000 bone and connective tissue transplant procedures were performed in the United States. "In one case report from 1985," Arnoczky said, "distribution of tissues from a single HIV-infected donor resulted in the dissemination of 52 virus-contaminated allografts. However, using current screeni...Regardless of race, pain feels pretty much the same
...g Whites and African-Americans suggests assessment procedures may be to blame for reported racial differences in the amount of pain experienced. Previous research and anecdotal clinical evidence have suggested that African-Americans tend to be more sensitive to pain than Whites, but the latest resear...Human studies show feasibility of brain-machine interfaces
...son's disease and tremor disorders. These surgical procedures routinely involve implanting electrodes into the brain and then stimulating the brain with small electrical currents to relieve the patient's symptoms. The patients are awake during surgery, and the neurosurgeons typically record brain signals to ens...New study reveals big disparity between countries in breast conservation rates
...on of the investigators, and all curative surgical procedures had been allowed. To reduce the risk of any bias, Professor Jassem analysed in detail only the 10 countries that had contributed a minimum of 150 patients drawn from several centres in each country. The mastectomy rates were: * France 28% * UK ...Emerging threats in health and medicine
...hcare providers to reassess emergency preparedness procedures within our communities and hospitals. Trauma teams and first responders understand that disasters and medical emergencies can happen in any realm. Not only must our healthcare system be prepared to respond to the threats of terrorists, but they must ...Childhood abuse may predict social phobia, agoraphobia, and PTSD among adult alcoholics
... services. Usually, standard or routine screening procedures do not include possible trauma-related symptoms such as PTSD, leading to under-diagnosis of this disorder." Van der Hart concurred: "It should be/become standard procedure that diagnostic evaluation of patients seeking treatment for alcohol or other ...How to sedate? That is the question!
...iary basis for the safety of outpatient anesthesia procedures by dentists, and professional rivalries over who can best provide these services. Yet the demand for outpatient anesthesia and sedation services for highly anxious and phobic patients has not decreased, training requirements have increased, and regul...Novel prostate cancer marker may lead to earlier diagnosis and fewer repeat bioposies
...psy, saving patients the fear and stress of repeat procedures and enabling us to treat the disease sooner." Dr. Getzenberg explained that EPCA is a marker protein that indicates the earliest changes that occur in cells during the development of cancer. In the study, Dr. Getzenberg, also co-director of the Pr...Current policy for complex surgery is misguided
... of deaths within 30 days of five complex surgical procedures in relation to volume of the same procedure and volume of the other four procedures. During the five year study period, 31,632 patients had one of the five procedures. Death rates within 30 days of surgery were lower not only in hospitals that did a ...2004 Salivary Research Award to Ekstrom
... vitro assessments by a variety of cell biological procedures to support (or counteract) new hypotheses. Some of his recent work has indicated that nitric oxide synthesis is required for the full glandular responses to certain transmitters, and although the synthesizing enzyme is of the "neuronal type", it is ...Aggressive heart therapies still underused, despite blood chemical status
...therapies such as anti-clotting drugs and invasive procedures in heart patients, despite the presence of biochem...arly use of newer anti-platelet drugs and invasive procedures among troponin-positive patients appears biased by CK-MB status despite this risk pattern." Newby sa...Heart attack patients face 25% lower death risk if hospitals follow national care standards
...ious heart attack. A large percentage had invasive procedures -- angiographies, angioplasties or bypass operations -- during their post-heart attack hospital stay. The GAP effort made a big difference in the prescriptions they received both early and late in their hospital stay. Before GAP, only 19.8 percent o...Emory researchers find race and gender gaps in treatment of heart attack
... and race in the use of recommended treatments and procedures for MI (including reperfusion therapy, aspirin, be...hey also examined differences in revascularization procedures among patients who had received coronary angiography. "We found that African-American women and men...New policy stops transplant heart gaming put potential still exists
...or Organ Sharing (UNOS), which develops allocation procedures and maintains lists that give priority to the sickest patients. Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO) obtain and disperse the transplantable hearts within a specific geographical region. Since long transport could damage cadaver hearts, organs obta...