Aug 12, 2015

American researchers suggest that vasculopathic patients who undergo transapical transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) appear to be more likely to experience adverse events and longer recovery...

Aug 12, 2015

Study results indicate that patients with high satisfaction scores appear to experience significantly higher surgical quality when compared with those with low satisfaction scores. Patients with high ...

Aug 12, 2015

Among patients undergoing cardiac or orthopedic surgery, a bundled intervention consisting of Staphylococcus aureus screening, decolonization, and targeted prophylaxis appears to significantly decreas...

Aug 12, 2015

Finnish research suggests that antibiotic treatment for patients with CT-proven, uncomplicated appendicitis does not appear to be inferior to appendectomy. Among patients who received antibiotic treat...

Aug 12, 2015

Laparoscopic colectomy appears to significantly reduce short- and long-term healthcare utilization and costs, according to a study. At 90 days, open colectomy was associated with 1.26-fold higher cost...

Aug 10, 2015

Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) procedures were initially developed to be a fully percutaneous alternative to open surgical replacement. As these procedures have been approved globally, ...

Aug 10, 2015

According to published research, surgical complications are a substantial burden in the United States, costing an estimated $25 billion annually and accounting for many readmissions. However, studies ...

Aug 10, 2015

Frail surgery patients are at greater risk of death and poor outcomes after their procedure than other patients. Recognition of frailty and its associated risks is important because it can inform shar...

Aug 05, 2015

He was 94 years old and was in my office because his gallstones were becoming a problem. They had been diagnosed 2 years earlier when he had an ultrasound for an unrelated problem. At that time they w...

Aug 03, 2015

It's time to catch up with America's most notorious neurosurgeon, Dr. Christopher Duntsch. Two years ago, I blogged about his misadventures in spine surgery, originally detailed in an article in the T...

Aug 01, 2015

Gastric bypass surgery and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding are two commonly performed bariatric procedures in the United States, but each has different profiles for risk and effectiveness. Few...

Jul 27, 2015

Laparoscopic repair of paraesophageal hernia (PEH) using a biological mesh appears to result in excellent long-term quality of life (QOL), according to Johns Hopkins researchers. Overall QOL scores im...

Jul 27, 2015

Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear to be at greater risk for opioid overdoses than others, according to a study. Patients who used four ...

Jul 27, 2015

Preoperative MRSA decontamination with chlorhexidine washcloths as well as oral rinse and intranasal povidone-iodine appears to significantly decrease surgical site infection (SSI) rates among patient...

Jul 27, 2015

Consumers can typically compare prices before making purchases for most industries in the United States, but the same is not necessarily true in healthcare, a sector of the economy that accounts for m...

Jul 27, 2015

Among highly selected patients with stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), surgical resection appears to improve overall survival when used as a part of multimodality therapy. NSCLC patients w...

Jul 27, 2015

A study has found that conducting individualized risk assessments of discharge to post-acute care can be predicted with excellent accuracy among surgical patients. Significant predictors of discharge ...

Jul 24, 2015

A while back, I was on call on a Saturday night when we got a notification of an incoming trauma, an intoxicated 40-year-old man who had fallen off a barstool and had a scalp laceration. He had a brie...

Jul 13, 2015

Use of ultrasound as the first imaging modality to diagnose pediatric appendicitis appears to have increased between 2008 and 2013, according to a study. The authors suggest that educational campaigns...

Jul 13, 2015

Using decision support systems in pediatric patients appears to help physicians select imaging modalities that lower radiation exposure and align with current guidelines, according to recent research....