Tag: Surgery: Misc.
Mobile App Cuts In-Person Visits After Breast Reconstruction
Number of visits down, increase in e-mails to doctors for ambulatory patients undergoing breast recon
Opioid Users Incur Higher Costs After Elective Abdominal Surgery
Preoperative opioid use linked to increased likelihood of longer hospital stay, rate of 30-day readmission
Intensive Strategy Addresses Hypoxemia After Cardiac Surgery
Intensive alveolar recruitment strategy linked to less severe pulmonary complications after cardiac sx
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, March 14-18
The 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons The annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons was held...
Glaucoma Surgery Risk Up With 7+ Injections of Bevacizumab
Patients who received four to six injections had a nonsignificantly increased risk of glaucoma surgery
ACC: TAVR Noninferior to Surgery for Severe Aortic Stenosis
Unique set of adverse events for each procedure among patients at intermediate surgical risk
Continuing Statins Up to Surgery May Improve CABG Outcomes
Continuing medications up to and on operation day linked to better survival rates in study
Clinical Decision Support System Use Tied to Fewer VTE Events
Increase in rate of appropriate ordering for VTE prophylaxis; reduction in risk of VTE events
No Benefit for Activity Restriction Post Prolapse Surgery
Equal satisfaction for women instructed to liberally resume activities, restrict postoperative activities
AAOS: Few Hip Fracture Patients Take Vitamin D Consistently
Correlation for consistent supplementation with increase in physical component of the SF-12 score
