Posts Tagged ‘surgery’
Updating Risk Factors For Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
A new study published in the March issue of Anesthesiology raises awareness for an additional risk category for patients undergoing routine coronary artery bypass surgery – low to moderate levels of inflammation. C-reactive protein (CRP) is a recognized marker of systemic inflammation, routinely measured in patients to assess their risk for heart attack…
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery And Spinal Cord Stimulation Show Promise In Alleviating Back Pain
Results from the first prospective study of minimally invasive facet arthrodesis and long-term data on spinal cord stimulation demonstrate the viability of these options to achieve pain relief in patients with various back pain conditions. The studies were presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s 26th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX…
Surgery helps chronic sinusitis sufferers get relief
Up to 76 percent of patients with chronic rhionsinusitis reported improved quality of life following endoscopic surgery. Prior to surgery, adults with chronic rhinosinusitis typically have lower quality of life scores than patients with congestive heart failure, angina, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or back pain.
New Approach To Postsurgical Monitoring After Surgery Could Keep Patients Out Of ICUs
A simple yet enormously effective patient surveillance system implemented by anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, New Hampshire has proven to dramatically decrease the number of rescue calls and intensive care unit transfers in postsurgical patients, allowing doctors to intervene in more cases before a crisis situation develops. Andreas H. Taenzer, M.D., F…
FOCUS Project Sees The Way To Mistake-Free Cardiac Surgery
Is it possible for cardiac surgery teams to completely eliminate medical errors? That’s the goal of an ambitious project-called the “Flawless Operative Cardiovascular Unified Systems” (FOCUS) initiative-being undertaken by the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA)…
Intravenous Lidocaine Aids Pain Control After Ambulatory Surgery
Although lidocaine is most often used as a local anesthetic, low doses of lidocaine given intravenously can help to control pain after common ambulatory surgery procedures, suggests a study in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)…
More Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Elect Joint Replacement Surgery Than Urban Recipients
Southern Illinois University researchers determined Medicare beneficiaries living in rural areas were 27% more likely than urban recipients to have total knee or hip replacement surgeries. Researchers found women were more likely than men to undergo total joint replacement surgeries. Differences in elective joint surgeries between white individuals and minorities in both rural and urban areas were observed, but were less pronounced in rural settings.
Intensive, Progressive Physical Therapist Exercise Program Plus Educationreduces Disability And Improves Patient Function After Back Surgery
Patients who have undergone a single-level lumbar microdiskectomy for lumbar disk herniation experienced significant improvement in physical function following an intensive, progressive physical therapist guided exercise and education program, according to a research report published in the November issue of Physical Therapy (PTJ), the scientific journal of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
Minimally Invasive Surgery Corrects Scoliosis And Relieves Retired Teacher’s Chronic Pain
Carole Riggs, a retired teacher and school principal, points to her work during one Christmas vacation bending, twisting and sitting on the floor to create games and teaching aids as the primary culprit behind many years of back pain. Burak M. Ozgur, M.D.
Need For Emergency Airway Surgery For Hard-to-Intubate Patients Reduced
Be prepared, that old Boy Scout motto, is being applied with great success to operating room patients whose anatomy may make it difficult for physicians to help them breathe during surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers report in a new study. When patients undergo general anesthesia, they stop breathing on their own and anesthesiologists must quickly insert a tube into the airway as a first step in machine-assisted breathing.
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