HIV-positive status may be associated with increased risks for complications and poor postoperative total joint arthroplasty ...

Patients who recorded more walking activity prior to surgery, regardless of complexity of the operation or their health status, showed 51% reduced odds for postoperative complications than less active ...

Study expands the backing for sleep apnea-specific hypoxic burden ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 2 years, patients who used non-tobacco nicotine had 32% increased risk for surgical site infection. Patients ...

Surgery can be risky business. A new study looks at how complications can result in patient death. It doesn't add new information, but it was peer-reviewed. Replication is fine, but is it always ...

The Five-item Frailty Index (5i-FI) is a tool used by physicians to predict surgical risk and postoperative complications after a procedure. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding ...

Implications of postoperative complications on survival after cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC: A multi-institutional analysis of the United States HIPEC Collaborative. Outcomes of appendiceal ...

Complications following surgical procedures pose significant risks to pediatric patients. Detecting complications after an operation can pose a challenge due to heavy reliance on symptom reports from ...

Ozempic, Mounjaro and other GLP-1s do not increase the risk of surgical complications, according to research published May 14 in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. Nearly a year after the American ...

Irvine-based medtech company Elixir MD Inc. announces a partnership to roll out its light therapy devices designed to speed up post-op care at H/K/B Cosmetic’s clinics.