* If you do opt for keyhole surgery, make sure the surgeon is very experienced and that the hospital performs these operations on a regular basis. Most injuries caused by this type of surgery are the result of an inexperienced surgeon. If you are in...
A 49 year old woman died in a London hospital after undergoing "keyhole" bowel surgery by a doctor who had no previous experience of this particular surgical technique. ...
The number of complications and hospital readmissions has risen sharply with the increased use of keyhole surgery techniques. ...
Surgeons have been warned to look out for excess air below the diaphragm of patients after keyhole surgery as this may indicate a perforation of the intestine (American Surgeon, 1997; 63: 132-6). ...
While medical authorities are looking at improving competence levels of surgeons performing laparoscopic "keyhole" surgery, new evidence has emerged to show some of the techniques themselves are a ...
Laparoscopy-keyhole surgery has wrongly been blamed for spreading ovarian cancer, believe some surgeons. ...
Established surgeons will have to work for a certificate of competence before they can practise keyhole surgery. The move follows growing numbers of cases of patients injured or even killed by sur ...
More people are having unnecessary gall bladder operations simply because surgeons find the new surgical techniques easier to perform. ...
Unproven surgical treatments are to come under similar controls in Britain as drugs currently are. A monitoring system is to be set up shortly, mainly following the adverse publicity which surroun ...
In 18 November 1993 my wife had a routine gallbladder keyhole operation, which appeared to be successful. Two days later, she was given a bed pan and she thought that she was urinating. To her ...
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