Tag Archives: Surgery
Cardiac guidelines ‘not endorsed’
5 February 2013 Last updated at 06:55 ET By Marie Louise Connolly BBC Northern Ireland health correspondent The guidelines used to assess children’s cardiac services in NI were not endorsed by local professional medical bodies, it has emerged. The assessment has led to the future of cardiac services at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children being placed under threat.
Outcomes of cartilage tympanoplasty in the pediatric population
Feb. 1, 2013 Cartilage tympanoplasty can be performed successfully in 95 percent of young children when appropriate conditions exist, according to a study in the February 2013 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery .
Prostate cancer study tracks long-term urinary, sexual and bowel function side effects
Jan. 30, 2013 A new study comparing outcomes among prostate cancer patients treated with surgery versus radiotherapy found differences in urinary, bowel and sexual function after short-term follow-up, but those differences were no longer significant 15 years after initial treatment. The study, led by first author Matthew Resnick, M.D., instructor in Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was published in the Jan.
Prostate cancer study tracks long-term urinary, sexual and bowel function side effects
Jan. 30, 2013 A new study comparing outcomes among prostate cancer patients treated with surgery versus radiotherapy found differences in urinary, bowel and sexual function after short-term follow-up, but those differences were no longer significant 15 years after initial treatment
Doctors to repair Malala’s skull
30 January 2013 Last updated at 08:55 ET Doctors have revealed how they are going to repair a missing area of the skull of Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai. Surgeons at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital have been giving details about two procedures due to be carried out on the 15-year-old. Malala was discharged from the hospital earlier this month after being shot in the head by the Taliban in October.
‘Ban non-medics from giving Botox’
28 January 2013 Last updated at 19:46 ET By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Only trained doctors, nurses and dentists should provide non-surgical cosmetic treatments such as Botox, say surgeons.
Mastectomy drug trial tests begin
25 January 2013 Last updated at 03:47 ET New treatment for breast cancer patients could be rolled out nationwide if a study in Cornwall proves successful. The Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro has been given £250,000 to trial a new technique, known as the “painbuster”.
Complex spinal surgeries with two attending physicians, instead of one, benefit patients
Jan. 18, 2013 Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes — and a new study by a duo at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) demonstrates how having two attending surgeons in the operating room during spinal surgeries can benefit patients in multiple ways. Most spinal surgeries in the United States are performed by teams led by a single attending surgeon — one top-level doctor who has completed medical school, residency and other specialized training
Surgeons may use hand gestures to manipulate MRI images in OR
Jan. 10, 2013 Doctors may soon be using a system in the operating room that recognizes hand gestures as commands to tell a computer to browse and display medical images of the patient during a surgery.
Breast care services reviewed
9 January 2013 Last updated at 06:45 ET Concerns over the management of breast care services at a hospital are to be the subject of an independent inquiry. The review comes as police investigate surgeon Ian Paterson over alleged botched or unnecessary breast cancer operations at West Midlands hospitals. Lawyer Sir Ian Kennedy will chair the review of services at Solihull Hospital, part of the Heart of England NHS Trust.
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