Effective surgery fails to attract patients unless costs are low
...-- the gains in productivity from those additional surgeries would substantially exceed the costs of setting up...ed locally. The additional cost of performing all surgeries at the local level rather than at regional clinics was $110; the total costs of moving the 59 surger...Lung cancer surgery patients have better outcomes at high volume hospitals
...76 hospitals in the study 34 performed only 1 to 8 surgeries a year, and 14 performed 9 to 14 surgeries a year. In contrast, only 2 of the hospitals were high volume providers, performing five to ten tim...Smaller hospitals OK for heart bypass surgery - if your risk is small
...-emergency bypass surgery that would limit complex surgeries to hospitals that perform a high number of the procedures. Such a move, says lead author and U-M cardiology fellow Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D., M.P.H., would inconvenience patients and their family, and cut their health care choice and access. And, he...New fund brings children from Europe for lifesaving surgery
...eons will operate on the children. Two successful surgeries have been completed, the first on thirteen year old Marta Biedrzyck and the second on nine year old Agata Holod, both from Poland. A third child, nine year old Kordian Kurpiewski is arriving at Kennedy Airport, Monday, December 17 at 4:30pm courtesy ...UM researchers use 'artificial intelligence' for first time to diagnose colon tumors
...se, which may prevent misdiagnoses and unnecessary surgeries and help us treat patients most effectively," says Dr. Selaru, who developed the computer algorithm used in the study. The researchers were also able to reduce the number of genes necessary to make the correct diagnosis from 8,064 to 97, wh...Regionalization of hospital caseloads may decrease mortality rates in pediatric surgeries
...0 California-based hospitals who underwent cardiac surgeries between 1995 and 1997, 83 deaths could have been avoided when all patients from low-and medium-volume hospitals were referred to high-volume hospitals. The results of the study, conducted by Ruey-Kang R. Chang, MD, MPH and his collaborator, Thomas S...Use of invasive heart procedures decreases after the age of 75
...cent vs. 37 percent), but had slightly more bypass surgeries (8 percent vs. 7 percent). "However, when we controlled for all these factors, as well as their risk factors, we still saw this age-related decline, which became more pronounced after age 75," Alexander continued. One possible explana...Overstocked blood drains nations supply
...neurosurgery at the University of Virginia. These surgeries included carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and repairs ...176. This gives a total C/T ratio of 5.41 for all surgeries analyzed. Evidence suggests that RBCs lose their capacity to deliver oxygen to the bodys tissues wit...Older patients who need high-risk surgery fare better in experienced hospitals
...oing to hospitals experienced in certain high-risk surgeries can help save lives for elderly undergoing those procedures, a Dartmouth Medical School study confirmed. Older patients who had any of 14 high-risk cardiovascular or cancer operations in hospitals highly experienced with their particular procedure we...Beth Israel Deaconess study documents outstanding surgical outcomes for diabetes patients
...ical outcomes of every patient undergoing vascular surgeries carotid endarterectomy, aortic reconstruction including treatment of aneurysms, and lower extremity revascularization at BIDMC. The database also carefully chronicles patient demographics and pre-operative risk factors. The authors used logistic r...Heartburn surgery helps lung transplant patients
...rgest in the country, having performed more of the surgeries than any other program in each of the past two years....'SolarScan' for earlier skin cancer detection
...ompany expects that the device will be in doctors' surgeries anytime from now on and that enhancements to the device will be ongoing. Polartechnics has also had recent success with a cervical cancer detection device Truscan which is currently undergoing clinical trials in Australia and Europe....Some patients are candidates for combined heart bypass, lung transplant surgeries
...rgest in the country, having performed more of the surgeries than any other program in each of the past two years....Depression predicts quality of life for lung transplant patients
...rgest in the country, having performed more of the surgeries than any other program in each of the past two years....Light adjustable intraocular lenses may offer customized vision for cataract patients
Nearly three million cataract surgeries are performed every year in the United States. The majority of patients must wear prescription glasses after the procedure to see properly. But a new technology may eliminate this problem. Based on technology developed by researchers from UCSF and C...Futuristic system brings vision to blind
... patients, who had been totally blind before their surgeries in April, have already learned to use the prosthetic system well enough to slowly drive cars on private property. They could walk freely around a laboratory, avoid obstacles and look outside a window to see a tree. "It's amazing now. It was science ...UCLA surgeons complete skin expansion procedure on conjoined twins
...was almost a dress rehearsal for the twins' longer surgeries next month," explained UCLA plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Henry Kawamoto Jr., who conducted the 75-minute skin expansion procedure. "The time was well spent discussing what we'll need to do next time and the type of supplies we'll require in...Study sheds light on 'dark side' of the knee
... cadaveric knees. After performing each of the two surgeries on one knee of the pair, the knees were then attached to a device in the laboratory that can simulates the pressures and torques experienced by the knee. The first approach, known as the combined tibial and fibular-based reconstruction, uses cadaveri...Study finds common knee surgery no better than placebo
...ed all the patients in the study and performed all surgeries both real and placebo. Dr. Baruch Brody, director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor, was instrumental in critically assessing the ethical issues involved in the study and in developing the stringent consent process for the ...Lingering cognitive impairment may be linked to coronary bypass surgery
...people annually. The procedure -- like many major surgeries -- exposes patients' brains to a variety of abnormal physiological conditions, including inflammation, lack of oxygen, elevated blood sugar, lowered body temperature, showers of microscopic blood clots, and the presence of a lot of amnesia-causing dr...