General Surgery
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Weigh Surgical Options for Metabolic Syndrome
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Iron Deficiency 'Unintended Consequence' of Gastric Bypass
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Tennessee Hospitals Cut Costs While Improving Outcomes
Major Finding: The Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative saw significant improvements in some patient outcomes, and saved as much as $8 million...
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Impaired Cognition in Elderly Impacts Postoperative Outcomes
Major Finding: Compared with their counterparts who had normal cognition at baseline, those who had impaired cognition had a higher rate of one or...
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Gastric Bypass' Metabolic Gains Persist at 6 Years : Rate of diabetes remission was 75% in surgical group, 1% among controls.
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Bariatric Surgery Recipients' Family Members Slim Down
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DVT, PE Risk Increased in Surgery Patients with IBD
Major Finding: After adjustment for more than 30 possible confounders available in the NSQIP that add to the power to predict DVT or PE, a...
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CMS Considers Coverage of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
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Standard Beats Anesthesia EEG Technique for Preventing Surgery Awareness
Major Finding: There were fewer cases of definite intraoperative awareness with the standard anesthesia technique (0.07%) than with the EEG...
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Data Analysis Favors Laparoscopic Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair
Major Finding: The 0.18% mortality rate in the group having laparoscopic abdominal wall hernia repair was roughly half the 0.33% mortality rate in...