When the administrators of St.Joseph Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, decided that they needed more office space and a satellite surgery center at their Dupont Medical Center facility, they concluded that the existing building could not support such an undertaking. Low temperature WaterFurnace water-to-air heat pumps, ranging from one-ton...
Since surgical services generate considerable revenue, its growth is frequently listed among the strategic objectives for many hospitals. This paper talks about Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Indiana, USA, that had experienced surgical growth of 7 to 10 percent for two years and expected this trend to continue due to the...
Surgical intervention can be a safe and effective approach to achieving and maintaining weight loss for morbidly obese patients who cannot lose weight with conventional dieting. Bariatric surgery does, however, carry the risk of serious complications. With its potential for complications and for successful weight loss along with resolution of...
The newest trend in cosmetic surgery, apparently, is nipping and tucking for your job. Not content to Botox their brows into submission merely for personal primping, workplace go-getters men as well as women are turning to appearance enhancement for career advancement. No lesser an authority than His...
Looks matter more in business than we'd like to think. Appearance-conscious execs are even willing to submit to the knife if it'll boost their business confidence, according to Director magazine. City suits and senior executives are feeling pressured by increasingly youthful colleagues to stop the clock. One...
The title of this post is a quote from this very enjoyable and easy to read book, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside, written by Katrina Firlik. Ive already loaned the book to my daughter, so I cant go into too much...
Indwelling urinary catheters are frequently used after urogenital surgery to monitor urine output and to prevent urinary retention. Although there seems to be no clinical uncertainty about the need for an empty bladder before surgery, controversy arises about the ideal time to remove the catheter. Removal of indwelling catheters tends...
The purpose of study was to evaluate the impact of age on outcomes in colorectal cancer surgery. Patients on hospital database treated for colorectal cancer during the period 1995 - 2002 were divided into two groups: Group 1 - patients of 75 years or older (n = 154), and Group...
Goal-Directed Therapy GDT has been shown to improve outcome when commenced before surgery. This requires pre-operative admission to the Intensive Care Unit ICU. In cardiac surgery, GDT has proved effective when commenced after surgery. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of post-operative GDT on the incidence...
This paper talks about a study which indicates that patients experience improved body image after undergoing common cosmetic surgery procedures, but the research did not suggest that participants experience decreased depressive symptoms or improvements in their body image-related quality of life. A year after surgery, 97 percent of patients reported...
The proportion of patients who undergo surgery within a clinically safe time is an important performance indicator in health systems that use wait lists to manage access to care. However, little is known about chances of on-time surgery according to variations in existing demand. The paper sought to determine what...
The extent of use of bariatric surgery and weight-loss medications is unknown. Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the paper estimates that the number of bariatric surgeries grew 400 percent between 1998 and 2002; such surgeries were performed on 0.6 percent of the 11.5 million adults clinically eligible in 2002. Hospital...
Research has shown that touching patients has several benefits. One study found that patients whose hands were held during cataract surgery reported less anxiety and had lower blood epinephrine levels than those who underwent cataract surgery without hand-holding. Another study found that elderly female nursing home residents who received comforting...
There is much debate on how increases in medical malpractice premiums affect patients' access to care. This report examines activity levels of neurosurgeons and obstetricians, as well as the incidence of high-risk surgery and patients' travel times in Florida, where malpractice insurance premiums have soared since 2000. Compared with 1997-2000,...
Results of a recently completed clinical study demonstrated that rofecoxib 50 mg was significantly more effective than diclofenac sodium 100 mg in the treatment of post-operative pain associated with bunionectomy surgery the day after surgery, and patients on rofecoxib required half as much opioid medication compared to patients taking placebo...
Immunizations for infants, flu shots, restorative dental fillings, blood transfusions, heart bypass surgery, urological surgery, anesthesia administration, intravenous drug delivery - these and many other modern medical procedures would not be possible without the advanced adhesives used today to assemble thousands of medical devices on highly automated assembly lines around...
A doctor might tell people that they need surgery for a health problem that isn't an emergency. This means that the surgery doesn't have to be done right away. They have time to talk with their doctor and decide what's best for them. Deciding what is best for them could...
The major shortcoming of image-guided navigational systems is the use of pre-surgically acquired image data, which does not account for intraoperative changes in brain morphology. The occurrence of these surgically induced volumetric deformations, or "brain shift", has been well established. Maximum measurements for surface and midline shifts were reported. There...
The use of intra-operative MR image guidance has the potential to improve the precision, extent, and safety of trans-sphenoidal pituitary resections. The trans-sphenoidal approach to pituitary surgery has been performed for some time. Until now these surgeries have relied on direct visualization without the aid of image guidance. An open-bore...
CARSON, Calif. AP -- Chivas USA midfielder Raphael Wicky had reconstructive surgery on his right ankle Wednesday and is expected to be sidelined for at least three months. Wicky is a World Cup veteran with more than a decade of professional experience in Germany, Spain and Switzerland...
