Tag: Surgery: Misc.

Higher risk also seen among patients experiencing increased urinary symptoms

Findings seen among Medicare patients admitted with an emergency general surgery condition

Postoperative consumption of opioids over six weeks reduced with multimodal opioid-sparing protocol for managing pain following arthroscopic shoulder or knee surgery

Authors say local complications are a far more common reason for silicone breast implant revision

Incidence of recurrent disease 3.17 and 3.33 percent per mastectomy and per patient, respectively, during median follow-up of 10 years

Beliefs about likely success of antibiotic therapy linked to lower risk for appendectomy, resolution of signs and symptoms by 30 days

Less propofol used with virtual reality while maintaining similar satisfaction and pain scores as usual care

Fewer compliance events seen with apixaban versus enoxaparin for extended-duration VTE prophylaxis after abdominopelvic oncologic surgery

The 126th American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Annual Meeting and OTO Experience

At 48 hours, mortality was 23.7 percent for those medically treated versus 4.4 percent for those surgically treated