New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients. By Jessica Silver-Greenberg Sarah Kliff and Aimee ...
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has launched its next-generation Operative Risk Calculator to assess the risk of adult cardiac surgery operations. The STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database represents 97 ...
Heart specialists at NHS Golden Jubilee are cutting out one of the ‘longest incisions in surgery’ from routine operations, giving Scottish patients a quicker, and almost pain-free, recovery. Patient ...
Older adults who undergo high-risk emergency general surgery spend significantly fewer days living independently at home ...
Overlapping surgery, in which a single senior surgeon operates across two parallel operating theaters and anesthetists induce anesthesia and junior surgeons commence and complete the operation, has ...
Already 19 patients have undergone Robotic Assisted Surgery in the last six weeks at Forth Valley Royal Hospital ...
In this series of hospital award winners, we're celebrating medical institutions that employ fresh and advanced approaches to patient care. After 10 years of living with knee pain and one painful ...
Reconstructive surgery helps trauma and cancer survivors regain function, confidence, and quality of life after serious ...