News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: April 22, 2016
Key clinical point: A hybrid operation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and variants in neonates is emerging as an alternative to the No...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: March 31, 2016
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: March 23, 2016
Key clinical point: Patients who achieve 5-year disease-free survival after esophagectomy for cancer should continue on follow-up beyond 5 years.<...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: March 23, 2016
Key clinical point: Tricuspid annuloplasty performed at the same time as mitral valve surgery in people with moderate or less tricuspid regurgitat...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: March 21, 2016
Key clinical point: Well-designed clinical trials are needed to determine the effectiveness of fast-track recovery pathways in lung resection.
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: March 21, 2016
Key clinical point: Sutureless aortic valves have the potential to achieve shorter procedure times and benefit increased-risk patients with aortic...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 26, 2016
Patients who have HIV are at no greater risk of complications from appendectomy than non-HIV patients according to an analysis of cases in a national ...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 23, 2016
Failure to diagnose a complication caused by damage to a nearby structure during hernia repair surgery is the most common cause for a malpractice clai...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 23, 2016
Transanal minimally invasive surgery for removal of rectal tumors achieved equal outcomes to transanal endoscopic microsurgery with measurable cost sa...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 22, 2016
Key clinical point: Robotic-assisted colectomy for straightforward resections involves longer operative times than laparoscopic surgery.
Major fin...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 22, 2016
Researchers have developed a Markov chain model based on ACS NSQIP data to predict the likelihood of specific future postoperative complications.
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 21, 2016
Surgical quality assessment should account for the increasing nonoperative management by surgeons of common diagnoses of abdominal pain.
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 20, 2016
Voice quality changes linked to swelling of laryngeal nerves after thyroid surgery are detectable by using both subjective and objective measures.
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 19, 2016
Key clinical point: Disparities among patients more likely to get emergency rather than elective ventral hernia repair include race, insurance sta...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: February 19, 2016
Stanford University School of Medicine launched a program to tackle the pervasive problem of burnout among residents.
