Surgery General
Nov 18, 2018
Hospital-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting for 100,000 to 200,00...
Nov 05, 2018
The following was originally posted to the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases blog. The C. difficile sniffing dogs are back! There are several pr...
Aug 24, 2018
In light of the current “opioid epidemic” in the United States, a dire need exists for alternatives to opioid medications for treating chronic pain. “Evidence suggests that many patients are see...
Jul 02, 2018
Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine malignancy with a continuously growing incidence over the last several decades in the United States. However, most of thyroid cancers are indolent and rarely resul...
Jun 22, 2018
Arthritis, which includes osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or other types, ranks as a leading cause of disability and pain in the United States. “Arthritis accounts for more than 100 ...
Jun 20, 2018
A transitional care intervention program appears to have achieved the goals of improving patient outcomes post-discharge, lowering costs of care, enhancing quality of life, and preventing hospital rea...
May 22, 2018
Kenilworth, N.J., May 22, 2018 – Trusted by doctors and other healthcare professionals for more than a century, The Merck Manual, now published in its 20th Edition, offers readers the tactile sati...
May 03, 2018
The Impact of EVLP Evidence suggests that ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) is increasingly being used to evaluate and treat donor lungs for transplantation. However, data are lacking on the impact of EV...
Mar 16, 2018
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) ranks among the most common and fatal types of brain tumors that occur in adults, and the disease is largely characterized by its invasive and aggressive behavior. Variou...
Mar 14, 2018
Last month in this space, I wrote about “Things doctors should not do—like attacking their nurses” and included this story among others: “A surgeon at a Long Island, New York hospital, angr...
Mar 13, 2018
The majority of patients who are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer often have surgery performed without having a genetic test completed, or before testing for BRCA1/2 and other cancer genes has...
Mar 13, 2018
By Chris Cole Managing Editor Pros & Cons With Perioperative Beta-Blockers Previous research indicates that perioperative beta-blockade among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery who ...
Mar 05, 2018
The 2017-18 influenza season peaked in early February and is now on the decline, according to a data published by the CDC March 3rd. Here are some summary points. The percentage of outpatient vis...
Feb 21, 2018
Clinically significant adverse events associated with procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA)—including critical oxygen desaturation, bradycardia, hypotension and cardiac arrest—are relatively unc...
Feb 08, 2018
We’ve been living in a MACRA world for some time now, and yet most physicians still aren’t ready—or even close to ready—for this new reality. As if physicians weren’t already drowning in ...
Feb 08, 2018
Nationally recognized and highly regarded health systems have a variety of ways to expand the reach of their “special sauce.” For some, it’s to launch outpatient centers in the suburbs. For othe...
Feb 08, 2018
The vast majority of healthcare takes place outside of a physician’s office. Consumers often care for themselves when they have acute problems, such as colds and the flu, and they partner with their...
Feb 05, 2018
Dr. Brouwers and a physician friend drove from the Netherlands to Freetown, Sierra Leone with an Ultimaker 3D printer with the intention of 3D-printing hand prostheses for locals there. Learn all abou...