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. More than a third of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals may make more money causing surgical errors than preventing them. A report published on April 17 in JAMA showed that surgical errors mean longer stays, additional care -- and 330 percent ...

An interdisciplinary research team from Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Rostock University Medical Center (UMR) and ...

Gastrointestinal surgeries carry risk of fluid leaks, a potentially life-threatening complication. But no existing methods can reliably and non-invasively detect these leaks. To address this unmet ...

James D. O’Leary, Duminda N. Wijeysundera and Mark W. Crawford Background: In health care, most preventable adverse events occur in the operating room. Surgical safety checklists have become a ...

A new artificial intelligence model found previously undetected signals in routine heart tests that strongly predict which patients will suffer potentially deadly complications after surgery. The ...

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 ...