Carolinas College of Health Sciences in Charlotte, N.C., part of Charlotte-based Carolinas HealthCare System, is creating the state's first anesthesia technician program, according to a Charlotte Business Journal report.
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A study evaluating the safety of a robotic angioplasty system in delivering coronary stents, balloons and other interventions has found the system as feasible, safe and effective as that of a manual operation, according to published study abstract in the…
A team of head and neck surgeons from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has found robotic surgery can treat hard-to-reach cancer in the larynx, according to a system news release. The study followed nine patients for up to three years…
Patients who develop high blood pressure while being treated for advanced kidney cancer with the drug sunitinib respond better to treatment, maintain longer progression-free survival and survive longer, according to a Cleveland Clinic-led study.
New studies have found that rhabdomyolysis, a muscle condition that injures the kidneys, may be caused in part by anesthesia, according to a Medical News Today report.
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Recently, San Francisco Surgery Center became the first ambulatory surgery center to offer MAKOplasty, a new robotic system that assists in partial joint replacement. Kevin R. Stone, MD, of The Stone Clinic in San Francisco, and John H. Velyvis, MD,…
Joel Mayerson, MD, orthopedic oncologist at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, successfully performed a rare rotationplasty surgery on a bone cancer patient, according to a hospital news…
Although stable pelvic fractures rarely lead to significant bleeding, there are several independent predictors of significant bleeding due to SPF, according to research published in the Archives of Surgery.
Research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital suggests tai chi exercise may improve the quality of life for patients with systolic heart failure, according to a study published in the Archives of…
A secure clinical event reporting system linked to an anesthesia information management system captured almost twice the number of adverse events as usual, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.