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

A study has found that early enrollment into cardiac rehabilitation (CR) after open heart surgery appears to be safe when patient assessments are carefully individualized and exercise prescriptions ta...

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....

Jul 13, 2015

A retrospective analysis of more than 45,000 patients indicates that BMI appears to predict operative times across elective colorectal procedures. Patients with morbid obesity, based on BMI, had longe...

Jul 13, 2015

Adding atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation to mitral valve surgery appears to significantly increase the rate of freedom from AF at 1 year among patients with persistent or long-standing persistent AF, ...

Jul 13, 2015

New research was presented at AUA 2015, the annual meeting of the American Urological Association, from May 15 to 19 in New Orleans. The features below highlight some of the studies emerging from the ...

Jul 13, 2015

There have been significant improvements in patient safety with the administration of anesthesia, and research has shown there has been a decline in anesthesia-related deaths. However, some studies su...

Jul 13, 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 13, 2015

Among patients with a small umbilical or epigastric hernia, mesh repair appears to halve the long-term risk of recurrence when compared with sutured repair. Researchers found recurrence rates of 10% a...

Jul 07, 2015

Nearly 20,000 physicians across 25 specialties responded to Medscape’s 2015 Compensation Survey. Check out our infographic! The top three earners this year are Orthopedics (421k), Cardiology (376...

Jun 29, 2015

A Kentucky appeals court recently ruled that a surgeon was not responsible for a burn caused by an instrument that had been removed from an autoclave and placed on an anesthetized patient's abdomen. ...