Before fighter pilots go into battle, they always do one thing first: practice. Fortunately, flight simulators have long allowed pilots to train and rehearse their complex missions in advance, so as ...

The age-old practice of applying antiseptic to skin prior to surgery on closed fractures could soon shift after a study, published Feb. 1, in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that iodine in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, patients having total hip arthroplasty had an 11% positive culture rate. Positive culture rates were ...

The operating room is the traditional revenue engine of the hospital. Perioperative services at better performing institutions contribute up to 68 percent of a hospital’s revenue. As the U.S.

Ankle replacement surgery, also known as total ankle arthroplasty (TAA), is a procedure designed to relieve pain and maintain motion and function in the ankle joint by replacing a damaged or arthritic ...

The plaintiff has lost nearly all of her vision, a process that started after a surgical preparation leaked into her eyes during neck surgery in 2014. James Poe, The Poe Law Firm, Atlanta. (Courtesy ...

Most of us will be faced with the need for surgery at some point in our lives. Surgery may present some particular challenges in people who have lupus, so proper preparation is important. Although we ...

The primary endpoint was any surgical-site infection within 30 days after surgery. The combination of MBP and OA significantly reduced the risk for any surgical-site infection (adjusted OR, 0.49; 95% ...