What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe 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. ...
Surgeons are rushing in to try their hand at minimally invasive operations without proper training or understanding of when they are appropriate. ...
We've been trying to make gallstones disappear for several thousand years, yet the magic act still hasn't been perfected. Although gallstones can occur at any time, the average "sufferer" is betwe ...
We know where they come from, we have a good idea what to do about many of them, yet gallstones are one of medicine's great travesties. Nearly one in every seven adults or 20 million Americans su ...
Recently, minimally invasive, or keyhole, surgery (laparoscopy see ... ...
