Better healing for your Achilles' heel -- literally
In most surgeries, damaged tissue is cleaned out before surgeons make the necessary repairs. However, a new minimally-invasive surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon actually uses the damaged tissue to help repair the tear. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - September 4, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Body language: UCLA's surgical residents sharpen their skills in special lab
Under the glare of operating-room lights, six UCLA neurosurgery residents embarked on a rare adventure into the human body. As they started cutting into three bodies, Dr. Warwick Peacock, professor of surgery, encouraged them onward. “That should be the linea alba,” he said in his gentle South African accent. “There are some adhesions. Always stick your finger in to make sure you’re not cutting into the bowel. It spoils the day.”
Incisions made, the residents approached the spine from the front, sawing through the sternum, moving beyond the lungs and following the rib head to the pedicle, then removing a thoracic...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - September 4, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Surgical-Site Infections Less Frequent After Minimally Invasive Surgery?Surgical-Site Infections Less Frequent After Minimally Invasive Surgery?
Minimally invasive surgery is associated with fewer surgical-site infections than is open surgery, according to a new observational study of tens of thousands of patients. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - September 3, 2014 Category: Surgery Tags: General Surgery News Source Type: news
ME AND MY OPERATION: Op that removes dangerous bowel polyps without cutting you open
Viv Gilliland, 61, from Mill Hill, North London, underwent a minimally invasive surgery being used to remove them, as he tells CAROL DAVIS. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 12, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Minimally Invasive Surgery Use Varies WidelyMinimally Invasive Surgery Use Varies Widely
Urban hospitals are more likely than their country cousins to offer less-invasive surgical options. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 18, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: General Surgery News Source Type: news
Men with prostate cancer and depression have lower survival rates than those who aren't depressed
Depressed men with localized prostate cancer are more likely to be diagnosed with more aggressive cancer, receive less effective treatments and survive for shorter times than prostate cancer patients who are not depressed, a UCLA study has found.
The study's lead author, UCLA professor Dr. Jim Hu, said the negative outcomes may be the result of several factors, including bias against people with mental illness, depression's impact on cancer's biological processes, the patient's lack of investment in his general health and disinterest in more effective care, and missed opportunities by physicians to educate patients about ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 15, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
No Maximum Use of Minimally Invasive (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Use of minimally invasive surgery for four common procedures varied widely by hospital and geography, suggesting a disparity in surgical care, analysis of a national database suggested. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - July 11, 2014 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Robot-assisted technique improves surgeons' ability to remove small kidney cancer tumors
Roughly 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year. Most of them have small tumors that doctors discover while screening for other health problems.
The surgeries to remove renal tumors can be difficult, particularly if the cancer is on the posterior side of the kidney and if patients have had previous abdominal surgery, because scar tissue from previous operations usually makes it hard for surgeons to distinguish the normal parts of the body from one another.
Now, a study led by Dr. Jim Hu and researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has shown that a newer surgical technique called robot-...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 10, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Use of Minimally Invasive Surgery Varies Widely (FREE)
(Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - July 9, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Minimally Invasive Surgery Underused at Many U.S. Hospitals - 7/8/14
Hospitals across the country vary substantially in their use of minimally invasive surgery, even when evidence shows that for most patients, minimally invasive surgery is superior to open surgery, a new study shows. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - July 8, 2014 Category: Research Source Type: news
Intuitive Surgical Receives CE Mark For The da Vinci® Xi™ Surgical System
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISRG), the global leader in robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery, today announced it has received a CE Mark for itsda Vinci XiSurgical System. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - June 27, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
Peer feedback through social media helps residents improve robotic surgery skills
Surgical residents who received anonymous feedback from their peers through a social networking site showed greater improvement in their robotic surgery skills than those who received no such feedback, a UCLA study shows.
The study, published in the early online edition of Annals of Surgery, is the first to examine the use of social networking to facilitate peer review of surgical procedure videos, said senior author Dr. Jim Hu, the Henry E. Singleton Professor of Urology and director of robotic and minimally invasive surgery in the urology department at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Research participants in...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 19, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Kenya: Humming Health Medical Centre Holds Pelvic Surgery Workshop
[The Star]Laparoscopic surgery also referred to as minimally invasive surgery describes the performance of surgical procedures with the assistance of a video camera and several thin instruments. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 3, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Israel-based Keystone Heart raises $14M for cerebral protection
Keystone Heart plans to pursue further clinical studies and boost commercialization with the $14 million it just added to its coffers.
Israeli device maker Keystone Heart raised $14 million in a Series B funding round in support of its TriGaurd implant, designed to help protect the brain during transcatheter valve replacement procedures.
Keystone Heart, OrbiMedNews Well, Funding Roundup, Implants, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Replacement Heart Valves, Strokeread more (Source: Mass Device)
Source: Mass Device - May 19, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Arezu Sarvestani Source Type: news
Poor QoL Not Tied to Worse Outcomes in High-Risk Lung CancerPoor QoL Not Tied to Worse Outcomes in High-Risk Lung Cancer
Patients with stage 1 lung cancer and limited pulmonary function may still be candidates for minimally invasive surgery, a new study suggests. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 12, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
