open surgery Articles
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Operating room cost management in cardiac surgery: a simulation study
The high variability in the required operating room (OR) time of open heart surgeries with approximately four and a half hours average overall duration is the main challenge in managing OR utilisation. We evaluate, with a discrete-event simulation model, how three different process changes – a four-day OR week, better accuracy in OR time forecasting and having anaesthesia induction take place ...
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Colon Myoelectric Activity Measured After Open Abdominal Surgery with a Noninvasive Wireless Patch System Predicts Time to First Flatus
Abstract Background: Passage of flatus after abdominal surgery signals resolution of physiological postoperative ileus (POI) and often, particularly after complex open surgeries, serves as the trigger to initiate oral feeding. To date, there is no objective tool that can predict time to flatus allowing for timely feeding and optimizing recovery. In an open, prospective study, we examine ...
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Transvaginal Hybrid Notes Cholecystectomy: Current Techniques and Advantages
Abstract Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has proven to be a safe and effective procedure, with low rates of com- plications and mortality since its introduction in the late 1980s. However, surgeons have been working to develop alternatives to this technique to improve clinical outcomes and the level of patient satisfaction. Natural orifice trans- luminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is one such ...
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Pelvic Autonomic Nerve Mapping Around the Prostate by Intraoperative Electrical Stimulation With Simultaneous Measurement of Intracavernous and Intraurethral Pressure
Purpose: In previous studies we noted that the neurovascular bundle was not identical to the bundle of the cavernous nerve fibers. In this study we sought to prove these anatomical findings electrophysiologically and map the autonomic nerve fibers by intraoperative simultaneous measurement of intracavernous pressure and intraurethral pressure. Materials and Methods: Between January 2004 and May ...
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Treatment of Post, High-Intensity-Focused Ultrasound Urethral Stricture with Novel Long-term Stent
ABSTRACT Urethral strictures (US) can be recurrent chronic illnesses leading to severe side effects and poor quality of life. Several options to treat US exist, including repeated dilatations, stents, and open surgery. A urethral stent is a good, minimally invasive option but has major limitations, such as stent migration, mucosal growth, and incontinence, especially for bladder-neck strictures. ...
By Allium Ltd
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The Importance of Surgical and Medical Asepsis
It goes without saying that when entering a hospital, it is expected that the hospital is clean, sterile, and both patients and the healthcare workers are protected from harmful contamination. To accomplish this level of cleanliness, medical professionals follow a strict series of practices and procedures known as the aseptic technique. Correctly implemented, this technique creates conditions ...
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High Risk Patients Require a Predictable Procedure - Case Study
Patient was referred for CABG, but refused open heart surgery. This was an LAD/ D1, Medina 1.1.1 bifurcation. Access was femoral. After aggressive predilatation of the D1 a 3.0/3.5mm Tryton was used. Tryton was accurately positioned ensuring the mid-markers straddle the ostium. A 3.5/15mm semi-compliant balloon was used to perform the POT for optimal appositioning of the ostial segment of the ...
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The New Guidelines For Interventional Oncology - And How Micromate™ Seamlessly Fits Into Them
Interventional Oncology, the 4th pillar of modern cancer care Until the late 90s, modern cancer care consisted of three pillars of treatment: surgery (through tumor resection), radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. These pillars address tumors directly, removing or destroying lesions. Although immunotherapy specialists devised ingenious ways to use the patients’ own immune system to better ...
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Best Material To Practice Your Suturing Skills
You've probably heard amazing stories of surgeons performing successful, yet extremely delicate and risky procedures such as open-heart surgery, separation of conjoined twins, craniotomy, thoracic aortic dissection repair, oesophagectom, spinal osteomyelitis surgery, and many more. As a medical student, you wonder how a surgeon can do such an incredible job. Well, the answer lies in lots of ...
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Laparoscopic Fundoplication with the FreeHold Trio Retractor - Case Study
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a highly prevalent disease. It affects about two thirds of adults in the U.S. at some point in their lives and accounts for greater than 4 million physician visits every yearl?. The so-called typical symptoms of GERD consist of heartburn, regurgitation and dysphagia. Cough, wheezing, hoarseness or chest pain may be present and are termed atypical ...
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Ancora Heart sees positive early results with Accucinch in systolic heart failure
Ancora Heart Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company looking to help those with heart failure, is heralding results from an interim analysis of patients treated in a U.S. early feasibility study evaluating the safety of the investigational Accucinch ventricular repair system. The multicenter, nonrandomized, prospective study is assessing the system in patients with symptomatic heart failure ...
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Surgery for Carpal Tunnel
Considering Surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a painful or numbing condition that affects the hands and fingers. It’s caused by pressure on one main nerves of the hand, the median nerve. The nerve passes through a narrow passageway in the wrist called the “carpal tunnel” (hence the name of the disorder). The pressure causes the nerve to ...
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Understanding Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Neurogenic Claudication
What is Lumbar Spinal Stenosis? Lumbar spinal stenosis, or LSS, is a common condition in which the lower spinal canal narrows and compresses the nerves in the lower back. Lumbar spinal stenosis is generally caused by aging and natural wear and tear on the spine. With lumbar spinal stenosis, thickened ligament, overgrowth of bone, and/or bulging discs in the lower back put pressure on the ...
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NHS Portsmouth - Campbell Surgery
Location: GP Surgeries Service: Legionella risk assessment by microbiological testing. Project Description: A Legionella risk assessment survey is an examination of the potential risks presented by engineered water systems, and seeks to identify and prevent the risks of exposure to Legionella bacteria from work activities and water systems. Envirochem visited the surgeries before they ...
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NHS Southampton - Burgess Rd Surgery
Location: GP Surgeries Service: Legionella risk assessment by microbiological testing. Project Description: A Legionella risk assessment survey is an examination of the potential risks presented by engineered water systems, and seeks to identify and prevent the risks of exposure to Legionella bacteria from work activities and water systems. Envirochem visited the surgeries before they ...
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Clinical implementation of the Humacyte human acellular vessel: Implications for military and civilian trauma care
ABSTRACT: The incidence of wartime vascular injury has increased and is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. While ligation remains an option, current resuscitation and damage control techniques have resulted in vascular repair being pursued in more than half of wartime injuries. Options for vascular reconstruction are currently limited to autologous vein or synthetic conduits, choices ...
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Five Year Outcomes in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease Who Received a Bioengineered Human Acellular Vessel for Dialysis Access
Objective: Patients with end stage renal failure who require haemodialysis suffer morbidity and mortality due to vascular access. Bioengineered human acellular vessels (HAVs) may provide a haemodialysis access option with fewer complications than other grafts. In a prospective phase II trial from 2012 to 2014 (NCT01744418), HAVs were implanted into 40 haemodialysis patients at three sites in ...
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The Evolving Role of Percutaneous Deep Venous Arterialization
The increasing incidence of peripheral artery disease (PAD) is occurring globally as populations age and rates of diabetes, obesity, and renal disease increase.1-3 Although most of these patients have no symptoms, when the disease progresses to its most advanced form, chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), there is a significant risk for limb loss. Despite the fact that our revascularization ...
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ReActiv8-B Trial 2-Year Data Publication in Neuromodulation
Abstract Background Impaired neuromuscular control and degeneration of the multifidus muscle have been linked to the development of refractory chronic low back pain (CLBP). An implantable restorative-neurostimulator system can override the underlying multifidus inhibition by eliciting episodic, isolated contractions. The ReActiv8-B randomized, active-sham-controlled trial provided ...
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