Surgeons

Surgeons implant second artificial heart

Kentucky surgeons who implanted the world's first self-contained artificial heart in a 59-year-old man more than 2 months ago announced on Thursday that they have installed a second such device in a 70-year-old man. The latest patient, who was not identified, was recovering in intensive care at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, the hospital said in a statement. // The self-contained mech...

Computers may become surgeons

Brain surgery, endoscopies and other complicated medical procedures could be made safer and faster in the future by using computers. Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles are examining the way people use vision// to interact with their environment and are attempting to design computer systems based on their findings. Currently, surgeons routinely use technology tha...

Amputation may depend on availability of vascular surgeons

Patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease may lose their limb to amputation if there are //no vascular surgeons to attend to them. Research findings report that areas of the country where there are more vascular surgeons, report less number of cases where patients of peripheral arterial disease have suffered through an amputation. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is often no...

Surgeons Presented Guidelines For Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

Researchers from American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) had provided clinical guidelines for chest physicians who deal with prevention and management of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) after cardiac surgery. Their report was published in the latest issue of journal Chest. The researchers offer specific guidelines relating to cardiac pacing, anticoagulation therapy // , pharmaceutical...

Surgeons Perform Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery

Researchers from Stanford School of Medicine had used remote controlled robotic arms and a binocular camera to perform laproscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully. Their research findings are published // in the August issue of Archives of Surgery. The laproscopic gastric bypass surgery (a Roux-en-Y procedure) is often considered the most challenging minimally invasive procedure in...

Surgeons in India to Mend ‘Pakistani Hearts’ by treating 70 Childrn

Mumbai, Sep 18 India and Pakistan maybe daggers drawn on many issues, however one issue that is likely// to win many friends include the treatment in India of 70 poor Pakistani children later this month for heart treatment. This one gesture is likely to pave path towards many more similar gestures and result in a harmony between the two countries that politician on both sides of the b...

Acute Shortage Of Neurosurgeons In India: One Surgeon For Every 1 Million!

India has a severe shortfall of neurosurgeons with only one surgeon for every one million population. There is hence a greater need to build up trained manpower in the country. This is comparatively lower when compared to the situation in US and Japan where the ratio is 100,000 // and 6000 for every one million population respectively. Dr.A.K. Mahapatra, professor in the Department of...

Surgeons Not Happy With Treatment Offered To Their Patients

There has been an increasing dissatisfaction amongst physicians regarding the quality of health care delivered to their terminally ill patients. This was disclosed in the annual Scottish Audit // of Surgical Mortality. The dissatisfactions focus on pain relief and other end-of-life care for patients in acute surgical wards. Furthermore, amongst all categories, Orthopaedic surgeons have...

Surgeons being paid triple the amount to cut waiting lists

In Scotland new measures are being undertaken by the health officials to reduce the waiting list of patients who have been referred by their General Practioner. // Hence new methods are being adopted by increasing the wages of the Surgeons three times their normal wages. Consultants receive more than ￡1,500 a day from officials to cut on the waiting list. In the near future pa...

Govt Hospital Surgeons Perform A Rare Cardiac Surgery

In what can be called as a rare feat, cardio-thoracic surgeons at the Government General Hospital, performed surgical correction of a congenital heart defect in a 30-year old woman under 'spinal epidural anesthesia’. // This surgery has so far been done only under general anesthesia. This new surgical innovation has been named as 'awake open heart surgery', as the patient remains cons...

UK Plastic surgeons cash in as cosmetic operations soar

Cosmetic enhancement has fuelled a booming industry and turned plastic surgeons into millionaires in the U.K. More than 22,000 operations were carried out on men and women in 2005, an increase of 35 per cent on 2004. The number of women // opting for cosmetic surgery increased by a third to 19,601. Male interest also increased, particularly for facial alterations and for anti-ageing oper...

Virtual Reality Simulation Could Help In Training Surgeons

At the Case Western Reserve University, virtual reality simulation tools are making dentists hone their art in a most innovative manner and if M. Cenk Cavusoglu has his // way, then this method can also train brain and heart surgeons to perform delicate surgeries in a risk-free manner. "Simulation is a popular training tool because it reduces the learning time and allows students to lea...

Plastic Surgeons Looking Forward To First Full Face Transplant

Trust plastic surgeons to be greedier! Not satisfied with the relative success of the partial face transplant on a French woman, plastic surgeons are hungry to perform the // first full face transplant. Reporting in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery? (PRS), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), U.S. plastic surgeons demonstrated the p...

Chinese Surgeons Separate Conjoined Twins, One Critical

Chinese surgeons have successfully separated a conjoined twin girls in Shanghai but one of them is still critical, a report said today//. One of the conjoined twin girls remains in critical condition and doctors are trying all out to help her live through her critical period after they were successfully separated in a hospital in Shanghai on Thursday. The 11-month conjoine...

Cosmetic Surgeons Discuss Facelift Surgery

Cosmetic surgeons from India and Italy took part in a workshop to discuss the various surgical techniques to do facelift surgery.// "India and the West have different approaches to cosmetic surgery. The medicine curriculum here focuses more on treating ailments like leprosy and burns than on aesthetic surgery," Anil Chadha, a cosmetic surgeon, told reporters during the first Indo-Italia...

Cash-Strapped Hospital loses Top Surgeons

Mount Vernon, one of Britain’s prime plastic surgery units, is losing four of their senior consultants because of inadequate funds// to maintain the hospital. The four specialists, Douglas Harrison, Paul Smith, David Gault and Rajiv Grover were part of a team of nine experts at Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood. As they leave services of the hospital would be dramatically reduced. <...

Surgery Simulators Offer Better Surgeons And Safer Surgeries

According to a recent study, using computer-based "surgery simulators" will be helpful in shaping better surgeons for performing safer surgeries. // It was found that surgeons trained with the simulators were able to perform the surgeries much better than their peers in performing an interventional technique to repair blockages in the legs. The presentation is scheduled for presentatio...

Surgeons Retrieve ‘Three-Year-Old’ Forceps From Patient’s Abdoen

In what can be called as a case of medical negligence, surgeons have reported the removal of a pair of forceps (eight-inch long) left inside the patient's abdomen three years ago//. The forceps is said to have been left inside the 17-year old Pakistani patient while she had underwent appendectomy surgery. The medical team consisting of three senior surgeons and four paramedics, respon...

Nurses Outsmart Surgeons When It Comes Safety And Team Wok

A study conducted to analyze the competence of medical staff in the operating room, has revealed that nurses exhibit the highest level of teamwork and increased awareness regarding operating room safety. // Surprisingly, doctors were found to rate the lowest with respect to teamwork. The survey, called the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ), was adapted from an airline industry ques...

Frustrated Australian Surgeons Opting For Private Hospitals

A new survey showed that Australian surgeons spend 60 per cent of their time working in private hospitals. The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons today said restricted// operating times, a lack of equipment and a shortage of both beds and nurses were driving surgeons out of public hospitals. The collage president Russell Stitz said at the Annual Scientific Congress in Sydney that many surgeon...

Australian Surgeons Successfully Conduct Worlds First Triple Organ Transplant

It has been reported that towards the end of last year, surgeons from Australia had performed the first ever-triple organ transplant//. Surgeons at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital had carried out the surgery on a 33-year-old woman, Leanne Myles of Cowra in central-eastern New South Wales. Leanne Myles was reported to be on her deathbed due to the failure of her liver, kidneys, a...

Acute Shortage Of Surgeons In East Cape

Surgical services in the Eastern Cape is heading for a collapse if the shortage of general surgeons continued, Dispatch Online quoted on Tuesday//. It reported Dr Sats Pillay, chairman of the Association of Surgeons in SA (ASSA) as saying: "I have nobody to train as surgeons." Pillay, who is chief of surgery, Port Elizabeth's Living stone Hospital, remarked that ASSA had ra...

Three Eminent Neurosurgeons To Examine Shahabuddin

The Patna High Court has order three neuro-surgeons to examine RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in Siwan jail and report to the court in three weeks. //The MP has repeatedly requested the court to allow doctors to examine his spinal problem and give appropriate treatment. Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad has annointed Dr AK Jain of AIIMS, Dr Maniyar of Beach Candy in Mumbai and Dr Vikram...

Annual Conference Of Plastic Surgeons In US To Focus On The Future Of Plastic Surgery

The annual meeting of the American society of plastic surgeons, 'Plastic Surgery 2006' is to concentrate on the future of plastic surgery.// The convention that is to be held on October 6-11 at the Moscone Convention Centre in San Francisco is to be attended by more than 6,000 doctors, medical personnel and exhibitors in the field of plastic surgery. It is expected that Pl...

Chinese Surgeons Perform First Penis Transplant

Chinese surgeons successfully performed the world's first penis transplant, but were forced to remove it after the man and his wife experienced some mental problems.// The man had lost his penis in an accident and was unable to urinate or have sex, the doctors said. Doctors had attached a 10cm penis to the 44-year-old patient from a dead donor. The procedure is described in next month...

French Surgeons Take Off for First 'Gravity-free' Surgery

A team of French surgeons took off on a specially equipped aircraft early Wednesday from Merignac Airport in Bordeaux to attempt the first-ever operation // carried out in weightless conditions, the Bordeaux University Hospital Centre (CHU) said. The Airbus A300 is equipped with a special surgical module, which could serve as a prototype for equipment used in future surgery carried o...

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery Publishes Research by Iraqi Surgeons

In a society struggling to rebuild after years of dictatorship and war, Iraqi craniofacial and plastic surgeons will play a critical role // in treating many of the most serious injuries caused by the ongoing conflict in that country. An important step forward was last year's "Kuwait Plast 2005" meeting, in which Iraqi surgeons met with their Kuwaiti and American counterparts in a 5-day exchange...

Surgeons Gear Up To Carry Out First Womb Transplant

Doctors are getting ready to commence the first ever womb transplant, which they hope will be a successful one. //Giuseppe Del Priore, from Downtown Hospital in New York, has been allowed to go ahead with the transplant which has apparently received ample prospective donors. Recently in October, Dr Del Priore's team was happy with the womb transplant they performed on a rhesus monkey....

North Texas Surgeons Lead Robotically Assisted Laparoscopic Surgeries.

North Texas surgeons lead robotically assisted laparoscopic surgeries. A robot can easily gain access to some inaccessible places in the body. Laparoscopic surgeons at// UT Southwestern Medical Center successfully performed robotically assisted laparoscopic gastric-bypass and colon-resections surgeries. Laparoscopic surgeries, are performed via several tiny holes rather than one long...

Snake Like Robots Designed to Assist Surgeons

With the advances in technology, new high technology based tools to assist in the operating room// in the future is being designed by researchers of Johns Hopkins University. These instruments would make the whole medical procedure a lot more safe and effective. The tools include a snakelike robot that could enable surgeons, operating in the narrow throat region, to make incisions and...

Are Women Seeing the Most Experienced Breast Cancer Surgeons?

Women who took more control over choosing their breast cancer surgeon were more likely to be treated by more experienced // breast surgeons and at a hospital affiliated with an accredited cancer program, compared to women who were referred by another doctor or their health plan, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The stud...

Plastic Surgeons to the Rescue of Women

Many women across the world have breast implants done for augmentation purposes or for firming up. To guide them in the right direction, eminent plastic surgeons// have united to offer services in this field. The service called the ‘mybreast package’ comes at an economical rate compared to the so called cheaper clinics. They also promise a follow up for entire life. The doctors involved...

Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation

Physicians have an effective new option for treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm that can cause stroke//. Heart surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed and tested a device that radically shortens and simplifies a complex surgical procedure that has had the best long-term cure rate for persistent atrial fibrillation. The...

Surgeons Skilled in Playing Video Games are Good at Simulated Surgery

A report in the February issue of Archives of Surgery suggests that surgeons portraying skill in playing video games fared better// during a course on simulated surgery skills. James C. Rosser Jr., M.D., of Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, and colleagues asked 33 surgeons (21 residents and 12 attending physicians) about their video game–playing habits, then assessed their perform...

Surgeons Find Gauze Left in Patient 11 Years Earlier

Belgrade, March 29 (DPA) A Serbian patient has survived more than a decade between two operations with gauze in his body, the Belgrade daily Blic reported Thursday.// The gauze was forgotten in the patient's body after surgery 11 years ago, a spokesman of the Sremska Kamenica cardiovascular institute, 70 km west of Belgrade, was quoted as saying. It was found during surge...

Welders Assist Surgeons in Andhra Pradesh

A rare surgery was performed on the victim of a freak accident at a government hospital in Kurnool in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.// Welders and a motley crew of technicians assisted the medical team in the operation. While trying to cross the road in the Kurnool town, Abdul Sukur, a retired bank official, fell upon the road divider. One of the sharp-edged...

No-scalpel Vasectomies by Skilled Surgeons may Speed Recovery

Among the birth control options for men no-scalpel vasectomies are highly preferred by the physicians. But despite its popularity //there is no definitive statistics to claim about the superiority of this procedure, as much has been stressed about the importance of the training. Yet training is not always available or sought, said lead reviewer Dr. Lynley Cook, a public health physici...

Surgeons Shocked By Green-Blooded Man

Around two years back, a team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding greenish-black blood . Describing the case in the Lancet, lead doctor Dr. Alana Flexman from St Pauls Hospital in Vancouver, wrote how his team was startled to discover green blood flowing in the veins of a man prepped for surgery. The 42-year-old man was bei...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

Fletcher remembers little of the disfiguring accident that nearly killed him, but he likes to recall shopping in January 2007 near his home on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Nobody stared at his torn face, he says. Not anymore, that is, because of his brand-new nose. In a series of six operations over a year-long period that ended with removal of the last suture...

Botox Offers Via Mail Order Enrages Plastic Surgeons

Plastic surgeons are outraged by a recent advertisement for botox operations made via a clothing catalogue. The offending feature , which belongs to the plastic surgery firm- Transform, and which shared space with items of clothing from company Grattan, has been receiving brickbats from many of Britains cosmetic surgeons. The Grattan catalogue enables shoppers to buy treatments, pay ove...