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April 25th 2024
A retrospective study challenges preoperative withholding of GLP-1 RAs in diabetes patients undergoing surgery, citing no increased risk of postoperative respiratory complications.
Hospital Performance Rankings Don't Capture Cancer Operation Complexity
Although many US hospitals tout quality improvement in surgical outcomes, new research findings released at the national conference of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) show that taking cancer operation performance into account would deliver a more accurate hospital rating.
Hospitals Receive New Checklists in 10 Patient Safety Areas
The federal government's Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks (HENs), which work to improve patient care through implementation and dissemination of best practices in clinical quality, have released checklists for 10 areas of patient care.
Triple Play: The Skinny on Bariatric Surgery
July 1st 2013Recent studies reveal more information on the effects of menopausal status and sleep-disordered breathing on bariatric surgery outcomes. Also, the FDA is reviewing a new agent that may help ensure a faster and safer postsurgical recovery for morbidly obese patients.
Study: Every Hour of Surgical Delay Brings a Perforated Peptic Ulcer Patient Closer to Death
Though it's common medical knowledge that an ulcer eating a hole through a patient's stomach requires immediate surgical treatment as a result of its life-threatening nature, new findings from a team of Danish researchers urge physicians to beat the clock in performing emergency surgery on perforated peptic ulcers (PPU).
Colonoscopy Prevents Crohn's Disease Post-Operative Endoscopic Recurrence
May 22nd 2013While it's already clinically understood that most patients with Crohn's disease suffer a recurrence following an intestinal resection, researchers have not evaluated the best strategy to prevent the disease from recurring.
FDA Approves Kcentra to Reverse Warfarin-Induced Anticoagulation
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Kcentra [prothrombin complex concentrate (human)] for the urgent reversal of anticoagulation induced by vitamin K antagonist (VKA) therapies such as warfarin in adult patients with acute major bleeding.