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Patients who have their thyroidectomy performed by a surgeon who does more than 25 such procedures a year tend to have fewer complications

Surgeons With >25 Cases a Year Optimal for Thyroid Removal

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Risk of complications 87 percent higher when case load is one thyroidectomy case a year
A protocolized handover process correlates with a sustained reduction in the number of errors for children being transferred to the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery

Protocolized Handover Process Sustainable for Reducing Errors

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Improved handover process is sustainable for children being transferred to ICU after cardiac sx
The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists is recommending that men avoid erectile dysfunction medications before surgery.

AANA: Men Should Avoid Erectile Dysfunction Meds Prior to Surgery

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Anesthesia professionals need to ask patients about these medications
Prone positioning is associated with significant changes in hepatocellular function and cardiac output in healthy volunteers

Significant Changes in Liver Blood Flow With Prone Positioning

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Change from supine to prone position linked to decrease in hepatic blood flow, cardiac output
Early patient-controlled oral analgesia is non-inferior to standard parenteral analgesia for pain management after elective cesarean section

Patient-Controlled Analgesia Non-Inferior After C-Section

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Non-inferior to parenteral analgesia for pain management after elective C-section
Surgery patients don't have an increased risk for complications if they receive an influenza vaccine while in the hospital

Influenza Vaccine Safe for Patients in Hospital for Surgery

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Findings show it won't increase complications
The number of U.S. breast cancer patients choosing to have a healthy breast removed has tripled in the past decade

Preventive Mastectomies Triple for U.S. Women Over Past Decade

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Patients increasingly opt to have the healthy breast removed, despite limited benefit
The first U.S. woman to receive a transplanted uterus has had the implanted organ removed due to an unnamed sudden complication

Complications Led to Loss of Organ in U.S. Uterus Transplant

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Doctors at Cleveland Clinic aren't yet revealing what went wrong
For patients with sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma

Neoadjuvant Chemo Response Predicts Sinonasal SCC Outcomes

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Better overall survival, disease-free survival, locoregional control, freedom from metastases
Arthroscopic superior capsule reconstruction restores shoulder function in patients with irreparable rotator cuff tears that have failed previous treatment

Arthroscopic Superior Capsule Reconstruction Promising

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Beneficial for patients with irreparable rotator cuff tears that have failed previous treatment