Growing Calls to Marry HF Specialists With Cardiac Critical Care
(MedPage Today) -- NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- With the needs of advanced heart failure (HF) dwarfing the supply of skilled physicians, HF specialists and others are well-positioned to prove their value in the contemporary cardiac ICU (CICU) -... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 2, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Advancing Health Equity in Organ Transplantation
(MedPage Today) -- Advancing health equity continues to be a key initiative for the executive branch, as the Biden administration recently evidenced through initiation of its Equity Action Plans, which outline over 300 strategies for addressing... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 27, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Giving Up the Knife
(MedPage Today) -- This year, I stopped doing surgery -- giving up the knife, so to speak. It wasn't an easy decision to make. I've been a surgeon for 32 years since graduating from medical school. It's been a distinct part of who I am for most... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 24, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Surgery May Hold Benefit in Acute Unstable Chest Wall Injuries in Select Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with acute unstable chest wall injuries who were receiving mechanical ventilation experienced modest benefits with operative treatment, a randomized trial suggested.
In a modified intention-to-treat analysis involving... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 21, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
PCI vs CABG: Does Age Inform Choice for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease?
(MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- Adding fuel to the controversy of revascularization for left main disease, patients had better survival after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery than percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in an all... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 19, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
MitraClip G4 Sets the Bar Higher for Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair
(MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- Contemporary practice had the fourth-generation MitraClip producing low short-term mortality and other good results even in mitral regurgitation (MR) patients previously deemed unsuitable for transcatheter edge-to... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 18, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Texas Doc Charged With Compromising IV Bags That Led to Colleague's Death
(MedPage Today) -- The Dallas-based anesthesiologist who had his medical license suspended earlier this week was arrested on federal criminal charges for allegedly tampering with IV bags, which led to a coworker's death, the Department of Justice... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 17, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Hospital Admins Knew Star Surgeon Was Dangerous; Warned Before 'Summer of Death'
(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
Hospital Administrators Knew Their Star Surgeon Was Dangerous
In the first installment of... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 14, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Earliest Evidence of Surgery Found in Stone Age Amputation
(MedPage Today) -- The earliest known evidence of a successful surgery was discovered in skeletal remains of a young adult who lived at least 31,000 years ago, according to a new report.
This individual, whose remains were discovered in the Liang... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 7, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Radiofrequency Tx Proves on the Nose for Collapsed Nasal Valves
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with collapsed nasal valves found relief after treatment with temperature-controlled radiofrequency (TCRF), according to a prospective, sham-controlled trial.
Among 108 patients with nasal airway obstruction who got... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 1, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Life-Threatening Collapsed Lung: Survival Better With Prehospital Needle Insertion
(MedPage Today) -- For trauma patients who require emergent chest decompression, prehospital needle decompression (PHND) was associated with a lower risk of mortality compared with tube thoracostomy, a cohort study found.
Those receiving PHND... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - August 18, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Falls From Higher Border Walls Overwhelm Trauma Services
(MedPage Today) -- On top of the drumbeat of COVID cases one night last October, UC San Diego Hillcrest hospital admitted nine patients "almost all at once" for crushing injuries sustained after they fell from as high as 30 feet trying to climb... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - August 16, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Why Is It So Hard to Get Wall-Fall Injury Data Published?
(MedPage Today) -- When UC San Diego trauma surgeons realized that patients injured after falling off the wall along the California-Mexico border were not just soaring in number, but in severity, complexity, length of stay, and cost over the last... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - August 16, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Hospital, Contractor Battle Over Anesthesiology Staff
(MedPage Today) -- A New Jersey hospital is suing an anesthesiology staffing firm over what it describes as serious staff shortages, while the firm is suing the hospital for poaching its doctors and other clinicians, according to a pair of lawsuits... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - August 16, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Texas Spine Surgeon Defends Himself Against 'Dr. Death' Comparisons
(MedPage Today) -- Anil Kesani, MD, a spine surgeon in Fort Worth, Texas, publicly pushed back against a malpractice claim that led to him being branded as "Dr. Death 2.0," by the media, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Kesani is embroiled... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - August 9, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
