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Colonoscopy without sedation. Possible..but does it miss the point? |
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Colonoscopy without sedation. Possible.but does it miss the point? Colonoscopy, repeated at 5-10 year intervals, is recommended to detect colon cancer after age 50. As the American (and global) population ages, more colonoscopies will be performed, and more colonoscopists are needed. One controversy is – who is qualified to perform a colonoscopy? Family physicians with special training argue that they are, and this would certainly ease the pressure on gastroenterologists (or offer a competitive threat?
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Chronic Pain after Breast Surgery is Very Common |
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Chronic Pain after Breast Surgery is Very Common. A November 11 study in JAMA. By Kehlet and his colleagues has found that nearly half of all women treated for breast cancer have pain 1 to 3 years afterwards and in half of these women the pain is moderate or severe. The results were based on a nationwide survey in Denmark that achieved an amazing 87% response rate. What Can Be Done to Prevent Chronic Pain? There are no definitive solutions yet to this problem. Surgical techniques that pay special att...
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Sore throat after surgery prevented by throat lozenges? |
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Sore throat after surgery prevented by throat lozenges? Sore throat after anesthesia and surgery is quite common – more than 1 in 10 patients who have outpatient (day) surgery complain of this. Along with the sore throat, some patients have cough, hoarseness and pain with swallowing (dysphagia). Airway management has the strongest influence on the incidence of sore throat, so if you have an endotracheal tube, which passes through the vocal cords, the risk is greater, compared with other types of airway d...
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Surgery and Stents |
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Stents are the ingenious hi-tech devices implanted in blocked coronary arteries by cardiologists, our high priests of interventional medicine. In the last 3-5 years we’ve learned unfortunately that coronary stents are not the panacea once hoped for. A major problem with stents is that they tend to become blocked off themselves unless anti-platelet medication, such as Plavix, is taken, for months or even years. What You Should Do. Make sure your anesthesiologist and your surgeon know that you have a coron...
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The Surgical Checklist Saves Lives |
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The Surgical Checklist Saves Lives. The New England Journal of Medicine published a special study. Reporting the success of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist in reducing lives and preventing major complications after non-heart surgery. Eight hospitals in developed (US, Canada, New Zealand) and developing (India, Jordan, Kenya, Phillipines, Tanzania) countries were involved, and the positive results were seen in both settings. The explanation for such amazing results? The fact that...
