As health care costs increase, outpatient arthroplasty is becoming more popular. In a recent study, researchers investigated complication rates and nationwide trends in outpatient compared with standard...
Aortic valve replacement is a common surgical procedure among non-elderly adults with aortic valve disease. To improve the decision-making process for patients considering surgery, researchers examined the...
Aortic valve replacement is a common surgical procedure among non-elderly adults with aortic valve disease. To improve the decision-making process for patients considering surgery, researchers examined the...
While wait times for hip fracture surgery have been associated with mortality and are used worldwide as quality-of-care indicators, the threshold for when complication risks increase remains undetermined.
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While wait times for hip fracture surgery have been associated with mortality and are used worldwide as quality-of-care indicators, the threshold for when complication risks increase remains undetermined.
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Current risk calculators are not designed to predict the risk of cardiac-related complications among geriatric patients following non-cardiac surgery. In a recent study, researchers sought to design a new...
Researchers sought to determine the extent to which obesity influenced functional decline among participants who underwent cardiac surgery, and how this association was affected by age, in a recent study.
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Although PCI is often used for symptom relief in patients with stable angina, there is no evidence from blinded, placebo-controlled trials showing the efficacy of the procedure in this population.
