Surgery
Brainy biomechanics for safer brain surgery
(Medical Xpress)—Patients undergoing brain surgery are likely to benefit from a new technique that can help neurosurgeons predict how the brain will move during operations.
Dec 18, 2013
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Surgery
Multimaterial 3D printers create realistic hands-on models for neurosurgical training
Researchers from the University of Malaya in Malaysia, with collaboration from researchers from the University of Portsmouth and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, announce the creation of a cost-effective two-part ...
Dec 10, 2013
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Surgery
Embolic material at site of fatal hemorrhage occurring days after flow-diversion aneurysm treatment
It started as a medical mystery and became a cautionary tale. Fatal hemorrhages occurred in the brains of two patients several days after successful cerebral aneurysm treatment with the Pipeline Embolization Device (PED). ...
Dec 10, 2013
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Cardiology
New treatment more effective at reducing blood clots in brain-injured patients, surgeons find
Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have found that a new protocol that uses preventive blood-thinning medication in the treatment of patients with traumatic brain injuries reduces the risk of patients ...
Nov 18, 2013
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Neuroscience
Successful grant applications and scholarly impact in neurosurgery
Researchers have found a strong relationship between scholarly impact and success in receiving awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among faculty in academic neurosurgery departments. Faculty members who receive ...
Nov 12, 2013
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Surgery
Neurosurgical residents improve quality and reduce costs
Neurosurgical resident-led effort to improve quality and reduce costs in a leading academic institution Charlottesville, VA (October 15, 2013). An incentive program to reduce the number of unnecessary diagnostic laboratory ...
Oct 15, 2013
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Neuroscience
Adherence to the 'Guidelines for Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury' saves lives
Researchers found a significant reduction in the number of deaths of patients hospitalized in New York State with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) between 2001 and 2009. The Brain Trauma Foundation, in collaboration with ...
Oct 8, 2013
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Surgery
Johns Hopkins experts devise a way to cut radiation exposure in children needing repeat brain scans
A team of pediatric neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center has developed a way to minimize dangerous radiation exposure in children with a condition that requires repeat CT scans of the ...
Oct 3, 2013
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Surgery
Racial/ethnic differences in outcomes following subarachnoid hemorrhage
University of Toronto researchers examined data on patients who had been hospitalized in the United States for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and found racial/ethnic differences in the rates of inpatient mortality and hospital ...
Sep 10, 2013
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Surgery
Complications associated with continuous CSF drainage in patients with SAH
Researchers at Duke University conducted a randomized clinical trial in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In this study, the researchers compared two approaches to intracranial pressure management—continuous ...
Aug 20, 2013
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