Surgery
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Trauma rates with operative vaginal delivery unexpectedly high, study finds
Declining use of OVD in favor of cesarean delivery has reduced opportunities for clinicians to acquire proficiency in performing these deliveries...
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Lung transplantation in the era of COVID-19: New issues and paradigms
Outcomes Research in Review
Preoperative Code Status Discussion in Older Adults: Are We Doing Enough?
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MDs doing wrong-site surgery: Why is it still happening?
“When they make a wrong-site error, usually the first thing they say is, ‘I never thought this would happen to me.’ ”
Outcomes Research in Review
Preoperative Advance Care Planning for Older Adults Undergoing High-Risk Surgery: An Essential but Underutilized Aspect of Clinical Care
Conference Coverage
‘Lopioid protocol’ – low-dose opioids – proposed for fracture surgery
“Managing narcotics postoperatively can be challenging due to the fact that many people come into these fractures with a history of narcotic use...
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COVID-19 linked to baby bust in high-income countries
Researchers found a significant COVID-19-related decline in crude birth rates in 7 of 22 high-income countries.
FDA/CDC
FDA warns of potential mechanical concerns with MAGEC devices
MAGEC is a surgical magnetic rod system used to treat early-onset scoliosis in children under 10 years of age.
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Married docs remove girl’s lethal facial tumor in ‘excruciatingly difficult’ procedure
This patient was much like the cases they treat every day, only “several orders of magnitudes greater,” Dr. Waner said. “On a scale of 1 to 10 she...
Conference Coverage
Simple risk assessment predicts post-PCI ischemic events
Determining if PCI patients have just one or more guideline-based risk features predicts their odds of ischemic events, and can be used to tailor...