News tagged with surgeons
Study identifies steep learning curve for surgeons who perform ACL reconstructions
Patients who have their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructed by surgeons who have performed less than 60 surgeries are roughly four to five times more likely to undergo a subsequent ACL reconstruction, according ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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New database aims to improve emergency general surgery care and outcomes
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, have successfully created and implemented an emergency general surgery registry (EGSR) that will advance the science of acute surgical care by allowing ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Lung transplant system often skips over those most in need
The current system for allocating donated lungs based on proximity and not on need appears to decrease the potential benefits of lung transplantation and increase the number of patients who die waiting, researchers said at ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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New appropriate use criteria reflect latest scientific data on restoring blood flow to heart
Updated appropriate use criteria released today offer detailed guidance on when to use an invasive procedure to improve blood flow to the heart and how to choose the best procedure for each patient. The clinical scenarios, ...
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Regional surgical quality collaborative significantly improves surgical outcomes and reduces cost
A new study published online today in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds hospitals participating in a regional collaborative of the American College of Surgeon's National Surgical Quality Improvement Progra ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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New medication, surgery may offer relief for patients with psoriatic arthritis
Medications or biologic agents that target T-cells, white blood cells involved in the body's immune system, appear to offer significant benefit to patients suffering from psoriatic arthritis (PsA), a type of arthritis that ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Brazil to pay for removal of defective breast implants
The government said Thursday it would pay for surgery on Brazilian women to remove defective French-made and Dutch-made breast implants.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Surgeons aged between 35 and 50 provide the safest care
Surgeons aged between 35 and 50 years provide the safest care compared with their younger or older colleagues, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Patients at risk of knee joint complications when new technology is used
Orthopaedic surgeons face a steep learning curve to get used to new prostheses, and the instruments and methods that go with them, before new total knee replacement procedures are as safe and effective as conventional methods. ...
Dec 14, 2011 |
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'Virtual operating room' to sharpen surgeons' smarts and skills
(Medical Xpress) -- Even for highly trained physicians and surgeons, there’s no teacher like experience.
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Weaning transplant recipients from their immunosuppressive drugs
Transplant surgeons live in the hope that one day they will be able to wean at least some of their patients off the immunosuppressive drugs that must be taken to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ. A team of researchers ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Racial, ethnic and insurance disparities revealed in post-hospital care after trauma
According to the results of a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, African-Americans, Hispanics and uninsured patients use fewer post-hospitalization services after traumatic injury, includ ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Surgeons perform better with eye movement training
(Medical Xpress) -- Surgeons can learn their skills more quickly if they are taught how to control their eye movements.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Keeping stress at a distance
Beep-beep, tick, shoosh, beep-beep, tick, shoosh. Four tiny incisions are made in the patient’s abdomen … thin metal tools are inserted into the incisions.
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Deep-chilling trauma patients to try to save them
(AP) -- Suspended animation may not be just for sci-fi movies anymore: Trauma surgeons soon will try plunging some critically injured people into a deep chill - cooling their body temperatures as low as 50 ...
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a person who performs surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such to remove a diseased organ or to repair a tear or breakage. Surgeons may be medical doctors, dentists, podiatrists or veterinarians. In earlier times, they were also people trained solely in removing bladder stones[citation needed], but at the present day specialised practitioners would have first been trained in one of the professions already mentioned.
Minimally invasive procedures such as the procedures of interventional radiology are sometimes described as "minimally invasive surgery." The field traditionally described as interventional neuroradiology, for instance, is increasingly called neurointerventional surgery.
Robotic surgery is an area of growing interest.
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