We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Complications occur in patients even when we perform ...

Cesarean delivery is the most common inpatient surgery in the U.S. but it also carries inherent surgical risks, including vascular, visceral, soft tissue, and nerve damage, which can lead to ...

Jacob Brady, a researcher at Newark-based Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and colleagues identified 630 patients in the American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program ...

Medical errors can have devastating consequences for patients, and one of the most alarming errors is the retention of surgical items in a patient’s body after surgery. Retained surgical items (RSIs) ...

In a recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv,* scientists compare post-surgical complications before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The findings from this ...

Patients experience fewer postoperative complications when a surgical safety checklist is used by their surgical team, reports the first large-scale review on the subject. By following a simple ...

As digital health grows, and as healthcare systems shift toward outcomes over actions, prehabilitation fits perfectly.

Bates says that reducing surgical complications is a job for hospitals and doctors but that there are things patients can do to lower their risk of complications. “It’s useful, for example, to know ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with diabetes who used a GLP-1 before surgery had no higher odds for complications than those using other ...

In a national study that included 9 million Americans, researchers found that the hospital a patient experiencing post-surgical complications returns to for readmission has an impact on the quality of ...

Just seven procedures account for roughly 80 percent of all admissions, deaths, complications and costs attributable to emergency general surgery across the nation, according to a study published in ...