Archive for the ‘Surgery’ Category

S.A. woman is weighing in on shedding pounds with lap band

Posted by: admin on: August 25, 2011

For years, weight loss surgery has been reserved mostly for the morbidly obese. That included people who weighed a hundred pounds or more than they should. Now, the FDA has made a change that will open up the operation to people with a lot less weight to lose. FDA lowered the weight standards for surgery, […]

Obesity should not require specialists to manage

Posted by: admin on: August 17, 2011

No matter what our current practice or specialty, at some point during medical school we will have had to study and demonstrate our knowledge and competency in dealing with common disorders like diabetes, hypertension, depression, chronic pain and countless other ailments. In addition, we will have spent hours poring over much rarer disorders, conditions that […]

Lap band surgery availability widened

Posted by: admin on: August 12, 2011

CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, who conducted a year of obesity surgery research in her career, said on “The Early Show” she’s not surprised by the new guidelines. She explained, “(The guidelines) have to do with the criteria under which patients are eligible for obesity surgery. In the past, if patients needed to […]

New Weight-Based Guide for Moving Surgical Patient

Posted by: admin on: August 3, 2011

The decision to move patients to and from a surgical position manually or using assisted technology should be based on their weight and the surgical position, according to a study published in the April issue of the AORN Journal. The decision to move patients to and from a surgical position manually or using assisted technology […]

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists have updated their 2007 blood conservation clinical practice guidelines Updated Topics 1.Preoperative management of dual anti-platelet treatment 2.Pharmacotherapy to increase red blood cell volume or to reduce blood loss 3.Use of blood derivatives, eg, fresh frozen plasma, factor XIII, leukoreduced red blood cells, platelet […]


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