Oct 30, 2014

The Particulars: Anecdotal experience suggests that using smartphones to remotely monitor postoperative incisional wounds via digital photos may improve outcomes and promote patient-centered care. How...

Oct 30, 2014

The Particulars: Researchers have hypothesized that pediatric appendicitis perforation rates may be related to age, general surgical care availability, and distance from pediatric surgical care. Howev...

Oct 30, 2014

The Particulars: Data indicate that patients are increasingly using the internet to obtain health-related information. In 2012, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released recom...

Oct 24, 2014

In 2007, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) published an expert consensus document on the current status and future direction of PCI without on-site surgical backup. T...

Oct 24, 2014

In 2006, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) released a joint statement on pulmonary rehabilitation, a comprehensive, interdisciplinary intervention that had bee...

Oct 24, 2014

According to recent estimates, more than 4.7 million Americans are currently living with a prosthetic knee. The incidence of total knee replacement (TKR) increased by 120% from 2000 to 2009, but it ha...

Oct 24, 2014

In 2005, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) first published evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for using sentinel node biopsy (SNB) in patients with early-stage breast cancer. I...

Oct 19, 2014

The aging population has led to a greater number of older adults being hospitalized with various conditions, but many of these individuals have impaired cognition. “These patients often face major d...

Oct 16, 2014

New research is being presented at ACS 2014, the American College of Surgeons 2014 Annual Clinical Congress, from October 26 to 30 in San Francisco.   Meeting Highlights Assessing Onli...

Oct 14, 2014

The Particulars: Researchers have hypothesized that regional anesthesia may reduce the risk of postoperative mortality among patients undergoing a range of surgical procedures. However, findings of st...

Oct 14, 2014

The Particulars: Studies have shown that anesthesia type can play a role in perioperative outcomes for relatively minor surgeries like knee arthroplasty. However, little is known about these effects f...

Oct 14, 2014

The Particulars: Understanding factors associated with anesthetic complications and “near misses” may help prevent perioperative complications and improve patient safety. However, data are lacking...

Oct 14, 2014

The Particulars: The high perioperative and postoperative costs associated with total knee arthroplasty (TKA) along with increasing demand from the aging United States population is placing greater fi...

Oct 14, 2014

The Particulars: Previous research found that postoperative pain management did not appear to improve from 1995 to 2002. Since that time, there has been greater attention on pain management in the hos...

Oct 13, 2014

The United States Preven-tive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that pre-surgical psychological screening (PPS) be used in clinical practice to assure that a patient’s diagnosis is correct, to...

Oct 13, 2014

A surgeon did an operation under local anesthesia with sedation in a very anxious, elderly patient. Everyone was aware of the patient's anxiety, and she was maintained on midazolam (Versed) by an anes...

Oct 13, 2014

Until recently, guidelines recommended complete axillary node dissection in women with breast cancer for whom their sentinel node biopsy was positive. However, patients who undergo this procedure rout...

Oct 09, 2014

Today was hernia day in the office. That wasn’t the intent; it was just the way the referrals came in. Four out of five new patients this afternoon had either complex or recurrent hernias. I seem to...

Sep 29, 2014

The saying used to be, "You can get any paper published if you have enough stamps." Now with electronic submission, you don't even need the stamps. A retrospective study comparing single-incision l...

Sep 26, 2014

New research is being presented at Anesthesiology 2014, the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, from October 11 to 15 in New Orleans.   Meeting Highlights Trends...