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Category Archives: Clinical practice

Laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomies remain far less common > 538,000 hysterectomies performed for benign disease> Most hysterectomies still invasive procedures

Is vaginal hysterectomy still considered to be associated with the lowest morbidity? Will the rate of laparoscopic hysterectomies continue to increase? Is a vaginal hysterectomy chosen over a laparoscopic or abdominal approach inspite of the fact that laparoscopic surgery is associated with shorter length of stay, faster recovery and fewer postoperative infections?

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Redo Weight Loss Surgery > NOTES Surgery Without Incisions > Fastening device > StomaphyX Transoral Gastric Pouch Reduction > Endosgastric Solutions > New Option For Patients Who Gain Weight After Undergoing Bariatric Surgery

Is the incisionless weight loss surgery procedure called StomaphyX a new outpatient procedure for patients who have have previously undergone weight loss surgery and regained excess weight? Can patients go home the same day? Is the average procedure time short and safer than traditional redo surgery?

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Power Medical Interventions Inc PMI Receives FDA 510k Marketing Clearance for iDrive Intelligent Surgical

Is the iDrive a step towards computer-assisted, power-actuated endomechanical instruments for use in minimally invasive surgery? Are Robotic Articulating Endoscopic Linear Cutter making the conventional linear staplers obsolete? Will there be more Intelligent Surgical Instruments developed for use in the emerging field of Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES?

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Lee Swanstrom Performs New Incisionless Procedure to Treat Weight Re-gain After Gastric Bypass > Incisionless Surgical Technique That Reduces Size of Stomach Pouch and Stoma > Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery GMIS > The Oregon Clinic

Will the new surgical technique help gastric bypass patients manage their weight? Does this new technique allow surgical revisions that are less expensive, less technically difficult to perform and less risky for the by-pass patient? Can the new and less invasive procedure correct a key cause of weight regain and get the patients back on […]

Laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomies remain far less common > 538,000 hysterectomies performed for benign disease> Most hysterectomies still invasive procedures

Is vaginal hysterectomy still considered to be associated with the lowest morbidity? Will the rate of laparoscopic hysterectomies continue to increase? Is a vaginal hysterectomy chosen over a laparoscopic or abdominal approach inspite of the fact that laparoscopic surgery is associated with shorter length of stay, faster recovery and fewer postoperative infections?

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Ethics > Life in medicine > legal framework > medical school > clinical practice

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ETHICS by M ichael S. K avic, MD

Life in medicine occurs within a legal framework that begins in medical school and continues throughout clinical practice. The framework is not new and has evolved over four millennia. Hammurabi, who ruled Babylonia between 1850-1750 BC, compiled one of the first recorded legal […]