There has never been a book in surgical literature addressing the perioperative complications during endovascular procedures,” says Dryjski, medical director of vascular and endovascular surgery at ...

Despite decades of calls for more attention to patient safety in hospitals, people undergoing surgery still have high rates of complications and medical errors, a new study finds.

Surgical complications are a considerable cause of death and disability around the world. 3 They are devastating to patients, costly to health care systems, and often preventable, ...

In a major leap, a surgical robot completed a gallbladder removal without human aid, learning from video and voice input.

Adding to the growing body of evidence on the benefits of surgical checklists, a new study in the December Journal of American College of Surgeons found that a surgical checklist, coupled with ...

Surgical complications such as wound infections, lung complications and cardiac events are known to occur at a far higher rate than in non-smokers. These events occur at a rate of 4% to 16% of ...

An experimental AI-guided robot can autonomously perform a delicate, complicated phase of a common gallbladder operation, marking a major step toward automated medical procedures, researchers said on ...

Chihtong "Lily" Lee never set out to reinvent surgical tools, but her curiosity, precision and creativity led her to do just ...