Surgery

A new randomized trial suggests oral apixaban may be as effective as enoxaparin for thromboprophylaxis following surgery for gynecologic cancer.

It is important to evaluate opioid use among patients before surgery to modify patient-level risk factors.

New research from Penn Medicine indicates 9.6% of heart surgery patients develop persistent opioid use post-procedure.

Gauging patient wellbeing prior to intravitreal injections may help inform clinicians as to who may fare worse with the treatment.

Sleeve gastrectomy is associated with less fracture risk than Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

Historically, representation of women and minority populations is low in surgical specialties.

Medications can help, especially in situations where weight gain can occur at a rapid rate.

An analysis of the TWILIGHT trial presented at SCAI examines SYNERGY BP-EES in a high-risk patient population.

Patients with obesity can be referred to an established weight loss program before surgery to reduce the risk of mortality.

New research has found use of medication alone was noninferior to using medication and graduated compression socks for preventing VTE following non-emergency surgery.

Use of the checklists is associated with a reduction in the rate of complications, reoperations, and readmissions.

New research suggests a residual shunt following PFO closure puts patients at a much greater risk of recurrent stroke or TIA.

The Florida-based clinician shares perspective and insight into what should be prioritized or revised in specialty care.

Daniel Kiernan, MD, discusses the results of a study examining dexamethasone intracameral drug-delivery suspension compared with topical corticosteroids for inflammation following vitreoretinal surgery.

Patients with depolarizations only had sporadic events that induced cortical spreading depression of spontaneous electrical activity.

Evry will enable the imaging of COVID-19 patients in need of emergency care.

Patients who undergo emergency surgery have twice the risk for venous thromboembolism than those how have elective surgery.

Patients who have operations have increased range of motion than those who do not have surgery.

The surgical resource document contains guidance on topics ranging from testing policies to ensuring the delivery of high-quality care.

Efforts must be taken to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion within surgical training programs.

New research is shedding light on the long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with stable ischemic heart disease.

Paul W. Armstrong, MD, joins to discuss the virtual cardiology sessions, as well as his team's new findings for vericiguat in high-risk heart failure.

A new retrospective analysis suggests CABG may be more appropriate for CAD patients with severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction.

Results of a new study dive deeper into the impact of preoperative metformin use in diabetics.

AGA reccomends doctors wear N95 masks instead of surgical masks and 2 gloves instead of 1.

The American Thoracic Society has released a set of guidelines to help clinicians treating patients with COVID-19.

Discussing takeaways from the late-breaking abstracts related to TAVR presented at ACC.20/WCC with a cardiac surgeon from Brigham and Women's Hospital.

An interventional cardiologist shares perspective on what the new two-year TAVR findings mean for him and colleagues.

New PRONOMOS data shows patients receiving lower limb surgery benefit significant from the oral anticoagulant—without increased risk of bleeding.

New trial data shows symptomatic patients with aortic stenosis reported noninferiority in rehospitalization and deaths with the lesser invasive option compared to surgery.