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Types of cardiac surgery include bypass surgeries, angioplasty, stents, heart valve replacements, and even heart transplants. Patients having all of these surgeries can benefit from physiotherapy. Patients who have other…
Revision hip surgery is more complicated and more time consuming than first time hip replacements and the outcome is often less satisfactory. Complete pain relief is less common than in…
Statistics reveal that about one in every three people carries staph aureus bacteria in their noses, and about one million people carry the MRSA type... Read More..
Male surgeons are always addressed as Mr in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Surgery is one of the only professions left that still uses a gendered title…
In one case, a facial fire occurred involving the ESU active electrode in an oxygen-enriched environment. In the second case, inadvertent activation of the ESU ignited bone cement being used…
Prior to this time, the eye piece of the lens was literally held up to the surgeons eye. Not only did this promote unsterile conditions, it made it impossible for…
The operating room can be a scary place for children, with unfamiliar equipment and people dressed in strange outfits...
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Weight loss procedures are either restrictive which reduce the size of your stomach or malabsorptive which lessen the flow of food from stomach to....
Specimens are more likely to be misplaced, mislabeled, or never collected in the first place, rather than lost in transit...
Hazards exist when ignition sources are used in the oxygen-enriched atmospheres (i.e., atmospheres containing more than 23% oxygen ) that are commonly present in the airway during surgery...