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The pen is mightier than the infection!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
The pen is mightier than the lawsuit ...at least when it comes to avoiding surgical mistakes. A pen can be used to mark the part of the patient's body meant for surgery. It can be done when the patient is wide awake and able to participate and, if necessary, able to say, "No, not that leg, THAT ONE!!" The phenomenon is called wrong-sided surgery and the solution, it seems, is a laundry pen.
You'd be surprised how much that helps 
Bariatric surgery hangs up its scalpel
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
In serious cases of obsity, patients sometimes opt for bariatric surgery--modifications to the stomach. This may include staples or cinchers, but the effect is that the stomach is shrunk so that the patient feels full after eating only a little. The surgical techniques involved have become more precise over the years, and many bariatric surgeries have been performed through only a tiny slit in the patient's abdominal wall
Blood test can monitor cancer spread
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 4 days (www.nature.com)
A new device that can detect minute numbers of tumour cells circulating in the blood of lung cancer patients may one day make monitoring the disease as simple as taking a blood test.
Why anaesthetics can make the pain worse
jerry submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
When you undergo surgery, you expect general anaesthetic to take the pain away, not make it worse. But new research suggests that many commonly used anaesthetics may worsen post-operative soreness and inflammation by activating peripheral pain pathways.
MicroRNAs Keep Tumors in Place
Eric wu submitted, created time 11 months 4 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
When a cancer spreads, or metastasizes, it often becomes incurable. Now scientists are eying a new factor that may prompt tumor cells to start roaming: a deficit of molecules known as microRNAs, which modulate gene expression. Building on earlier work linking microRNAs to cancer, researchers have found that a lack of certain microRNAs encourages tumors to spread. They also report that in mice, the microRNAs can be manipulated to slow metastasis.
I am very glad that this news has opened a path toward explaining the follow article 'Breast-Cancer Genes May Come With Lower Risk'
HYPNOSIS MAY LOWER COSTS OF BREAST SURGERY
davidd submitted, created time 1 year 5 days (caonline.amcancersoc.org)
A team from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York found that giving breast cancer patients a brief hypnosis session before surgery can actually reduce the cost of the procedure. Patients in the hypnosis group spent 10.6 fewer minutes in surgery than those in the control group (43.37 minutes versus 53.97 minutes, P = .04), translating into an average cost savings of $772.71 per patient. Time in surgery was measured from the moment the surgical team was ready to begin operating until anesthesia was discontinued.
When Surgery Succeeds, But Healing Fails
Eric wu submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.time.com)
A surgeon uses a scalpel to incise the skin, beginning an exploratory celiotomy....... But when a wound doesn't heal, what then? Professor of Orthopedic Surgery adds another d to "FRIEND."
Nonsmall cell lung cancer -- chemotherapy before surgery appears better than surgery alone
bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.eurekalert.org)
Combining pre-operative chemotherapy and surgery increases the average chance of survival at five years by approximately 6 percent compared with surgery alone.
Sterilization without surgery well received
bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.sciam.com)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Placement of a device that effectively sterilizes a woman can be performed safely and effectively on an outpatient basis without general anesthesia or sedation, with high rates of patient satisfaction, according to British researchers.
MedUnion submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.mupnet.com)
Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of liver (USL) is a rare pediatric cancer. It typically occurs in the liver of children and young adults. Most patients present it at stage when surgical resection is no longer possible and face a dismal prognosis. Multimodality treatment consisting of combinational systemic chemotherapy and surgery may improve the prognosis. We report a case of a young aged girl with advanced USL who is successfully treated with three times of surgical intervention and combination chemotherapy. Patient remains free of recurrence 49 months after diagnosis.
alpha submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (care.diabetesjournals.org)
"A combination of IV insulin (in the ICU) and SC insulin (outside the ICU), a less costly and less nursing-intensive therapy than 3 days of IV insulin postoperatively, results in a reduction of the increased surgical morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients after CT surgery. "
Doctors try new surgery for gallbladder removal
medal submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.iht.com)
"Doctors in New York have removed a woman's gallbladder with instruments passed through her vagina, a technique they hope will cause less pain and scarring than the usual operation, and allow a quicker recovery. The technique can eliminate the need to cut through abdominal muscles, a major source of pain after surgery."
Corticosteroids for the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery
alpha submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (jama.ama-assn.org)
"Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia to occur after cardiac surgery. An exaggerated inflammatory response has been proposed to be one etiological factor. "
Insurer Must Pay for Boy Breast Surgery
alpha submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (hosted.ap.org)
"An insurer that refused to pay for a teenage boy's breast reduction surgery on the ground that it was cosmetic must reimburse his father for the operation, a New York appeals court ruled."
julie submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (jco.ascopubs.org)
"Our data suggest that, in patients with locally advanced thoracic esophageal cancers, especially epidermoid, who respond to chemoradiation, there is no benefit for the addition of surgery after chemoradiation compared with the continuation of additional chemoradiation. "
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