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Enhanced recovery programme benefits
Patients undergoing colorectal operations who participated in an enhanced recovery programme left the hospital sooner and had significantly lower hospital costs.
Benefits from minimally invasive back surgery
A minimally invasive spinal fusion back surgery results in less blood loss, less post-operative pain, smaller incisions, a shorter hospital stay and faster recovery and return to work.
Remove less in liver cancer surgery – study
An approach in which a surgeon removes less than a lobe of the liver in a patient undergoing an operation for liver cancer, is associated with lower mortality and complication rates, according to a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre study.
Benefits of sedatives before surgery questioned
A randomised trial finds that among patients undergoing elective surgery under general anaesthesia, receiving the sedative lorazepam before surgery did not improve the self-reported patient experience the day after surgery, but was associated with longer time before extubation and a lower rate of cognitive recovery.
Accurate one-minute frailty assessment
Emory University surgeons have developed that an approximately one-minute frailty assessment that can accurately determine how likely a patient is to have complications after an operation.
ARTs boost post-operative survival rates
Post-operative mortality rates were low among patients infected with HIV who are receiving ART, and those mortality rates were influenced as much by age and poor nutritional status as CD4 cell counts.
'Tumour-selective' dyes for brain surgery
Two new fluorescent dyes attracted to cancer cells may help neurosurgeons more accurately localise and completely resect brain tumours, suggests a study from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Better survival for bariatric surgery patients
Obese patients in the US Veterans Affairs health system who underwent bariatric surgery had a lower all-cause rate of death at 5 years and up to 10 years following the procedure.