A large study at an Australian children's hospital suggests that there's little or no risk of death related to anesthesia in healthy children, reports the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).
Using plasma rather than standard resuscitation fluids seems to improve survival in trauma patients with massive blood loss. Now a new study in animals suggests that this benefit may result from plasma's ability to restore the "endothelial glycocalyx," a special layer lining the blood vessels, reports the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).
A plastic surgery procedure in which the patient's own fat is transplanted to the breasts—used along with treatment to expand the breast tissue before surgery—can achieve up to a twofold increase in breast size, according to a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
A team of plastic and orthopedic surgeons achieved a high success rate in limb salvage—minimizing the need for amputations—among patients injured in last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti, reports a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).n Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
Infants and very young children who are exposed to anesthesia may experience higher rates of learning disabilities and cognitive difficulties than children who are not exposed to anesthesia, according to research and emerging data presented during the SmartTots: Pediatric Anesthesia Neurotoxicity panel at the International Anesthesia Research Society annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C.
"Joint replacement used to be about doing the things you needed to do -- literally, being able to walk. Now, younger patients are coming and saying, ‘I want to continue playing tennis, skiing or golfing and don’t want to be sidelined by pain or disability,’” says Dr. Steven Haas, chief of the knee service at Hospital for Special Surgery.
Stents can be in the body a long time, so it’s important to know what happens to them. Now, a team of Michigan Tech students has found new ways to replicate what happens to stents and other manmade things tucked inside our blood vessels.
Research published in the June issue of Anesthesiology analyzes the causes of complications such as stroke and cognitive impairment after surgery.
Interventional cardiologist Dr. Ferdinand Leya says there's no upper age limit for performing balloon angioplasties. Agnes Komperda, for example, underwent an angioplasty when she was 96, and just celebrated her 100th birthday.
Loyola University Medical Center has opened a hybrid operating room that combines the imaging capabilities of a cardiac catheterization lab with the sterile environment of a conventional operating room (OR).
When two adjacent discs in the low back wear out, become compressed and cause unmanageable pain, numbness or other symptoms, replacement with artificial discs can be a viable alternative to standard fusion surgery, based on two-year post-surgery data from a randomized, multicenter trial recently published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
The way that clinicians report outcomes of surgery for a traumatic nerve injury involving the arm is not standardized, and it is thus difficult to compare the efficacy of different surgical treatments, according to a study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.
Twenty-five patients underwent reconstruction and inguinal ligament release.
Hospital charges for spinal fusion surgery in the upper spine vary considerably—with the surgeon's choice of spinal hardware being the largest source of variation, reports a study in the May 15 issue of Spine. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Less expensive alternative just as safe and effective as common, costly immune suppressants for transplants.
An estimated four in 10 hospital websites in the United States publicize the use of robotic surgery, with the lion’s share touting its clinical superiority despite a lack of scientific evidence that robotic surgery is any better than conventional operations, a new Johns Hopkins study finds.
Obese patients undergoing colon surgery are 60 percent more likely to develop dangerous and costly surgical-site infections than their normal-weight counterparts, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. These infections, according to findings published in the journal Archives of Surgery, cost an average of $17,000 more per patient, extend hospital stays and leave patients at a three-times greater risk of hospital readmission.
Removing enlarged tonsils and adenoids may help prevent high blood pressure and heart damage in children who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a study conducted at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In some children with OSA, adenotonsillectomy can result in significantly lower blood pressure within 24 months of the procedure.
HoST system modules are the first training applications for specific robot-assisted procedures; available for robot-assisted prostatectomy, hysterectomy, cystectomy and complex extended lymph-node dissection.
A yoga-based maneuver, reported in the peer-reviewed Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, relieves the pain of rotator cuff tear and restores range of motion during one short office visit. The subscapularis muscle takes over for the injured supraspinatus muscle in the rotator cuff. Symptoms usually almost completely disappear.
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