Articles Tagged With: surgery
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Does Every Woman Deserve a High-volume Gynecologic Surgeon?
Generally, gynecologic surgical complications are higher with lower-volume surgeons.
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Counsel Women About Contraception Guidelines After Bariatric Surgery
Just-published research indicates that while women should avoid conception for the first 18 months following bariatric surgery, 42% of women participating in the 10-site study reported having unprotected intercourse during the 18-month at-risk, post-surgical timeframe.
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Is Bariatric Surgery the Antidote for Female-associated Cancers?
This study investigated gastric surgery as a prevention for female-associated cancers. Women with a body mass index of ≥ 38 kg/m2 who had surgery had an average of 28 kg of weight loss compared to the control group. This resulted in a statistically significant decrease in endometrial cancer.
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The Effect of Major Depression on Quality of Life After Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence
Women with major depression undergoing surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence have worse condition-specific quality of life than non-depressed women. Postoperatively, depressed and non-depressed women have similar incontinence severity and quality of life.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Increased in Families; Atypical Mycobacterial Infection in Cardiac Surgery Patients
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Is Technology Working for Your Surgery Program?
We are living in a time when, for just about anything we need, there is an app associated with it. Our mobile phones have replaced our cameras, fax machines, video cameras, alarm clocks, maps, newspapers, magazines, address books, yellow pages, and many other devices and items that we just thought we could not do without.
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Failure to Recognize Post-surgery Problem Caused Internal Bleeding Yields $4.3M Verdict
In 2010, a 57-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital to undergo surgery to permanently stitch her stomach into the correct anatomical position after a hiatal hernia caused her stomach to partially invade her chest cavity.
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Falls May Be a Strong Indicator of Baseline Health
In a study of 15,000 adults undergoing elective surgery, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that falling up to six months before an operation is common and often causes serious injuries across all age groups. The frequency of falls among middle-aged patients was slightly higher than among those who were age 65 or older
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Patients Prep for, Recover from Surgery with App
A new smartphone app is helping surgery patients at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville follow a treatment program to better prepare them for surgery and speed their recovery.
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Take a Proactive Approach to Managing Denials Before They Occur
If hospitals are doing only denials management and not avoiding denials up front, they’re already behind, says Beverly Cunningham, RN, MS, consultant and partner at Oklahoma-based Case Management Concepts.