Time under general anesthesia associated with postoperative complications in head and neck surgery
... question of the appropriateness of candidates for surgery based on age. Marina Boruk, M.D., from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, and colleagues, conducted a retrospective study of medical records, between January 1999 and January 2004, to determine if age alone is a pre...Reconstructive technique provides option for difficult nasal plastic surgery
...deviations, usually the result of trauma, previous surgery or congenital malformations such as cleft palate, ... him or under his supervision, at a facial plastic surgery center. Of the 2,119 patients from 1981 to 2004 with severe nasal septal deviations undergoing the s...Camera-guided colon surgery works best for most patients, study confirms
Camera-guided surgery through small incisions works better than conventional surgery for colon cancer and related diseases, at least in the short term recovery, a new review of previous...Single-dose antibiotics reduce appendectomy complications
...e." Timothy Babineau, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine, says that all surgeons now use antibiotics for appendectomies but how they use them varies enormously. "Practitioners are all over the map on this," he says. "They tend to practice the way they were taught...Halt NSAIDs use before gum surgery, Case researchers say
...ecommend the discontinuation of ibuprofen prior to surgery to correct gum disease because blood loss is two t...the first studies to examine the use prior to oral surgery and its effects on rates of bleeding during and after periodontal surgery for gum disease. The findi...Surgery is favored treatment for severe hemorrhoids
...t to 94 percent, the study found, and was equal to surgery in terms of relieving the most common symptoms. However, surgery "achieved better overall cure rate" because patients undergoing RBL were more likely to need future ...'Hospital-at-home' concept does not save money or improve outcomes, study finds
...ost expensive items on a hospital bill, items like surgery and intensive-care monitoring. "Most of the costs for a hospital stay are at admission and right at the beginning of recovery," she says. The review also finds no evidence that people treated at home live longer or avoid readmission to a hospital, al...Minimally invasive solid tumor biopsy may replace surgery to get diagnostic specimens
...n appears to be a safe and reliable alternative to surgery for obtaining diagnostic samples of a suspected so...c surgeons that this technique is more likely than surgery to dislodge cells from the tumor and cause the cancer to spread. A report on the findings of this st...Combination scanner may increase accuracy in detecting spread, recurrence of head, neck cancer
...ssistant professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at UNC and the report's senior author. Shores is a...re rather than aggressive therapy, including major surgery or combined chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Such intensive treatments may cause difficulties s...Virtual colonoscopy reveals diseases outside the colon, as well
...ng studies; of those, 13 were confirmed as needing surgery or further monitoring, and 12 were determined to have benign lesions. Ten of the 35 did not receive any follow-up. The average additional cost per patient for following up clinically important extracolonic findings was $28.12. "That's relatively low...Clinical factors can help determine risk of prostate cancer death after radical prostatectomy
...uding the time to biochemical recurrence following surgery can help predict the risk of prostate cancer death...tratify patients for risk of metastasis: time from surgery to biochemical recurrence, pathological Gleason score (a grading system for prostate tumors), and PS...Hopkins researchers identify risk factors for prediction of lethal prostate cancer after recurrence
... the surgical pathology results and time following surgery - can be used to tell which men with recurring cancer after surgery are most likely to die from their renewed disease and would benefit from further treatment. "We ide...Chronic sinus infection thought to be tissue issue, Mayo Clinic scientists show it's snot
...ons have already started to change the way they do surgery for patients with chronic sinus infections, focusi...ucus from healthy patients undergoing septoplasty, surgery to fix a deviated septum, for comparison with the specimens from the chronic sinus infection patient...Hey doc, do I still need this catheter?
...pital, involved patients who had been admitted for surgery or with general ailments including kidney and lung problems. Two of the wards used the reminder system and two did not, but a nurse checked the records of every patient each day. The first eight months of the study gathered baseline data on catheter...Common C-section method leads to unnecessary scars, Stanford study finds
...arean. During the study, surgeons were asked after surgery to score the severity and location of any adhesions. The researchers then examined patient records to determine whether a participant's first caesarean included peritoneal closure; it had for about 39 percent of the women. The researchers found that ...Surgery gives fresh start to patients with thickened hearts
... from 228 who had obstructive HCM but did not have surgery and 820 HCM patients with a form of the condition ...y (17 percent) had died among the patients who had surgery to correct the problem. The mortality rate for myectomy patients was statistically the same as that ...New anti-blood-thinning drug not as safe as protamine
...or more than 40 years after coronary artery bypass surgery to return thinned blood to its normal state. While...ts intravenously immediately after coronary bypass surgery to counteract the effects of the anticoagulant heparin, which is infused during the procedure. Hepar...Revised classification system is effective for predicting breast cancer outcome in some patients
...oadjuvant chemotherapy clinical trials followed by surgery from January 1992 through December 2000. Using surgical tissue samples from each patient's breast and axillary lymph nodes, the researchers measured the pathologic, or disease, stage of the patients' residual tumor with the revised AJCC TNM staging s...LSUHSC innovation in patient safety training to improve surgical outcomes
... Center in New Orleans, a surgical team comprising surgery residents, anesthesiologists, circulating nurses, ...ed independent technologies to relate laparoscopic surgery to a "live patient" in an environment with the look, feel, and function of a real minimally invasive......CE for major adverse cardiovascular events. Bypass surgery is often performed when a problem occurs during a PCI procedure or the physician can't adequately restore blood flow using minimally invasive techniques, and repeat angioplasty during the same hospital stay indicates incomplete treatment the first ti...