http://medicalxpress.com/surgery-news/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest research news on surgery, surgical procedures and operation Results after seven years of follow-up suggest that women considering abdominal sacrocolpopexy (surgery for pelvic organ prolapse [POP]) should be counseled that this procedure effectively provides relief from POP symptoms; however, the anatomic support deteriorates over time; and that adding an anti-incontinence procedure decreases, but does not eliminate the risk of stress urinary incontinence, and mesh erosion can be a problem, according to a study in the May 15 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-long-term-effectiveness-surgery-pelvic-prolapse.html Surgery Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:05 EST news287758791 (Medical Xpress)—Robots are everywhere these days. They roam Mars, solve Rubik's cubes and vacuum our floors. Now, a robot named da Vinci is helping patients across the Penn State region get the major surgeries they need with less pain, complications and recovery time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-da-vinci-robot-surgery-renaissance.html Surgery Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:50:01 EST news286095903 Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have developed a new tool to help surgeons use X-rays to track devices used in "minimally invasive" surgical procedures while also limiting the patient's exposure to radiation from the X-rays. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-x-ray-approach-track-surgical-devices.html Surgery Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:19:00 EST news285326331 (Medical Xpress)—Anesthesiologists now have more direction for treating patients who have broken their hip and are undergoing surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-medical-nerve-block-treatments-patients.html Surgery Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:02 EST news284279465 New research from the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, published in the Journal of Surgical Research, may help clinicians determine which patients are at highest risk for post-surgical blood clots in the legs or lungs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-physicians-post-surgical-venous-thromboembolisms.html Surgery Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:44:33 EST news283005817 (Medical Xpress)—An estimated 300,000 U.S. patients get surgical site infections every year, and while the causes are varied, a new University of Utah study suggests that some who get an infection can blame it partly on their genes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-surgical-site-infections-genes.html Surgery Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:16:29 EST news281085365 For the first time scientists studying the cellular processes underlying the body's response to healing have revealed how a flash of calcium is the very first step in repairing damaged tissue. The findings, published in Current Biology, could lead to new therapies that speed up the healing process following injury or surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-scientists-calcium-trigger-immune-response.html Surgery Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:40:01 EST news280063844 A new endoscopic surgical procedure has been shown to be safer and to result in better outcomes than the current standard medical treatment for patients who suffer strokes as a result of brain hemorrhages, UCLA neurosurgeons have announced. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-brain-hemorrhage-patients.html Surgery Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:32:31 EST news279876703 (Medical Xpress)—Two new studies from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest ways to improve surgical treatment for a debilitating condition caused by compressed nerves in the neck and shoulder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-surgery-nerve-compression-disorder.html Surgery Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:10:01 EST news279441683 (HealthDay)—Lungs of heavy smokers can be donated safely for use in adult double-lung transplants, a new study contends. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-lungs-heavy-smokers-transplant.html Surgery Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:22:02 EST news278688110 (Medical Xpress)—This time of year many people make resolutions to live a healthier lifestyle, exercise more, lose weight and eat better. For the adolescents who are extremely obese in this country, diet and exercise alone often are not enough to get their weight down. Some of those teens will require weight loss surgery to improve their overall health. According to a recent study published in the January print issue of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, bariatric surgery in extremely obese adolescents also was shown to be beneficial in helping to reverse previously undiagnosed cardiovascular abnormalities believed to be linked to severe obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bariatric-surgery-extremely-obese-adolescents.html Surgery Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:50:01 EST news277972681 Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes – and a new study by a duo at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) demonstrates how having two attending surgeons in the operating room during spinal surgeries can benefit patients in multiple ways. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-complex-spinal-surgeries-physicians-benefit.html Surgery Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:51:10 EST news277743044 In an airplane crisis—an engine failure, a fire—pilots pull out a checklist to help with their decision-making. But in an operating room crisis—massive bleeding, a patient's heart stops—surgical teams don't. Given the complexity of judgment and circumstances, standard practice is for teams to use memory alone. In a new study published in the January 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, however, researchers at Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health system innovation at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, have found that teams using checklists have markedly better safety performance. Specifically, the research shows that clinicians provided with checklists in a novel study using advanced simulation of surgical crises were three-fourths less likely to miss key life-saving steps in care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-checklists-rooms-crises.html Surgery Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:00:09 EST news277577641 Doctors may soon be using a system in the operating room that recognizes hand gestures as commands to tell a computer to browse and display medical images of the patient during a surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-surgeons-gestures-mri-images.html Surgery Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:21:59 EST news277039310 (Medical Xpress)—A new tool that could allow for faster, more comprehensive testing of brain tissue during surgery successfully identified the cancer type, grade and tumor margins in five brain surgery patients, according to a new Brigham and Women's Hospital and Purdue University study. The paper detailing the results will be published in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was published online this week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-tool-brain-surgeons-closer-room.html Surgery Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:27:21 EST news276953227 Among infants undergoing major surgery, postoperative use of intermittent intravenous paracetamol (acetaminophen) for the management of pain resulted in a lower cumulative morphine dose over 48 hours, according to a study appearing in the January 9 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-post-operative-intravenous-acetaminophen-morphine-infants.html Surgery Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:01 EST news276864462 After a cautious and rigorous analysis of national malpractice claims, Johns Hopkins patient safety researchers estimate that a surgeon in the United States leaves a foreign object such as a sponge or a towel inside a patient's body after an operation 39 times a week, performs the wrong procedure on a patient 20 times a week and operates on the wrong body site 20 times a week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-malpractice-surgical-events-year.html Surgery Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:08:13 EST news275141280 Despite earlier signs that a less-invasive surgery is safer and better than "open" operations to repair potentially lethal abdominal aortic aneurysms, a study led by a Johns Hopkins professor shows survival rates after four years are similar for both procedures. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-long-term-survival-less-invasive-abdominal-aneurysm.html Surgery Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:13:57 EST news275058830 Imagine living without a heart. It is possible—if you have a new artificial heart pumping blood through your body. You can even go to the supermarket, watch your kid's soccer game or go on a hike. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-ucla-doctors-heart-total-artificial.html Surgery Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:40:07 EST news274097801 (Medical Xpress)—A study has found that young, less-experienced surgeons made major surgical mistakes almost half the time during a "simulated" gall bladder removal when they were distracted by noises, questions, conversation or other commotion in the operating room. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-young-surgeons-special-room-distractions.html Surgery Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:04:11 EST news273420236 First there was the "heart in a box," a revolutionary experimental technology that allows donor hearts to be delivered to transplant recipients warm and beating rather than frozen in an ice cooler. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-ucla-lung-transplant-states.html Surgery Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:39:01 EST news273159530 (Medical Xpress)—As researchers work on reconfiguring cells to take on new regenerative properties, a new review from Penn Medicine plastic surgeons sheds additional light on the potential power of adipose-derived stem cells - or adult stem cells harvested from fatty tissue - in reconstructive and regenerative medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-fat-derived-stem-cells-potential-regenerative.html Surgery Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:33:31 EST news271665126 Using regional anesthesia rather than general anesthesia reduces the need for blood transfusions in patients undergoing bilateral total knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery, in New York City. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-anesthesia-affects-outcomes-bilateral-knee.html Surgery Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:30:02 EST news270474763 (HealthDay)—Bipolar transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) in combination with high-intensity diode laser (DL + b-TURP) is feasible for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in large prostates, according to research published in the November issue of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-laser-bipolar-resection-large-prostates.html Surgery Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:50:06 EST news270466266 Regenerative-medicine researchers have moved a promising step closer to helping infertile, premenopausal women produce enough eggs to become pregnant. Today, surgeons at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, reported that they were able to stimulate ovarian cell production using an in vitro rat model, and observed as the cells matured into very early-stage eggs that could possibly be fertilized. Results from this novel study were presented at the 2012 American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-surgeons-recreate-eggs-vitro-infertility.html Surgery Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:50:01 EST news268408691 (HealthDay)—The number of people who survive surgery when general anesthesia is used has improved dramatically over the past 50 years, Canadian researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-survival-anesthesia-vastly.html Surgery Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:40:01 EST news267443542 A study comparing bariatric surgical procedures for obesity suggests that even though undergoing the less commonly used biliopancreatic diversion/duodenal switch (DS) may be associated with higher early risks compared with gastric bypass (GB), the DS appears to achieve better weight loss and control of co-existing illnesses, especially among patients whose body mass index (BMI) was more than 50, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-duodenal-gastric-bypass-morbid-obesity.html Surgery Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:00:01 EST news267098510 In the largest study of its kind, living donors who had a kidney removed through a single port in the navel report higher satisfaction in several key categories, compared to donors who underwent traditional multiple-port laparoscopic removal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-single-port-kidney-belly-button-boosts.html Surgery Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:48:22 EST news266676491 Scientists at the University of Glasgow are working to harness the regenerative power of stem cells to improve orthopaedic implant surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-stem-cell-powered-implant-revolutionize-orthopedic.html Surgery Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:51:32 EST news265877485 Using an endoscope to guide the removal of leg veins used in heart surgery is as safe as using large, ankle-to-groin incisions, according to a study by Duke University Medical Center researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-allays-endoscopic-vein-harvesting-heart.html Surgery Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:00:05 EST news262967871