Sentences with phrase «of general surgery»

Knowledge of general surgery and eClinicalWorks is preferred, but will consider a strong candidate without this experience.

Progressive Surgical Associates is a preeminent provider of general surgery services in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.

To ensure your dog gets the most out of her annual (or semi-annual) wellness exam, follow this checklist from Mark Stickney, DVM, director of general surgery services at Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences:

«If your dog spends a lot of time outside, [he is] going to get dirty,» says Mark J. Stickney, DVM, clinical assistant professor and director of general surgery services at the College of Veterinary Medicine's department of small animal medicine and surgery at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

WINSTON - SALEM, N.C. — June 27, 2013 — Wayne Meredith, M.D., Richard T. Myers Professor, chair of general surgery and director of division of surgical sciences at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, gave the Charles C. Wolferth Jr., M.D. Memorial Lecture at the 32nd Annual Point / Counterpoint Acute Care Surgery Conference, June 2 — 5 in National Harbor, Maryland.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

9 Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and Department of Surgery, Cheng - Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Prior to his role as director of transplantation, Fung was the chairman of the Digestive Disease Institute at Cleveland Clinic, which includes the disciplines of general surgery, gastroenterology, hepatology, human nutrition and colorectal surgery.

«Those days are gone,» said University of Chicago Medicine surgeon Kevin Roggin, MD, professor of surgery at the Pritzker School of Medicine, program director of the general surgery residency and associate program director of the surgical oncology fellowship.

Staff of this Program: Amanda M. Laird, MD, FACS, Chief, Section of Endocrine Surgery H. Richard Alexander, Jr., MD, Chief Surgical Officer Rebecca Burke, MD, Palliative Care Specialist Simon M. Hanft, MD, Director, Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Surgery and Surgical Director, Pituitary Tumor Program Salma Jabbour, MD, Radiation Oncologist Timothy Kennedy, MD, FACS, Surgical Oncologist Sung Kim, MD, Radiation Oncologist Steven K. Libutti, MD, FACS, Director, Rutgers Cancer Institute and Surgical Oncologist Usha Malhotra, MD,, Medical Oncologist Stanley Trooskin, MD, FACS, Chief of General Surgery and Endocrine Surgeon Hetal Vig, MS, CGC, Genetic Counselor Elina Dykhne, APN, Advanced Practice Nurse Aleza Rubin, APN, Advanced Practice Nurse

In one study of general surgery patients, quitting smoking for three or four weeks before surgery reduced the complication rate from about 40 to 20 percent.

Not exact matches

Carmine Simone, chief of surgery at Toronto East General Hospital, had six procedures cancelled over a three - month period in 2013 because the patients had failed to stop taking their medication beforehand.

Sinopharm and Bluestem Capital are investing $ 18 million in Virtual Incision, makers of a miniature robot for general abdominal surgeries.

First, it's looking to branch out of its current focus on urology and gynecology and into more general - surgery areas.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

I was a firm believer in immortality of the soul until I had general anesthesia for surgery.

The technology of modern medicine, oriented to treating gross pathology and trauma by surgery, powerful drugs, and space - age technology, has little to do with either the degree of wellness of individuals or the general level of wellness in society.

Dr David Unwin, Expert Clinical Advisor for Diabetes at the Royal College of General Practitioners and GP at The Norwood Surgery in Southport, discusses why he introduced a low carbohydrate diet for patients with type 2 diabetes — work which saw him named the 2016 NHS Innovator of the Year.

Whether that has more to do with Garcia in general or the procedure is unclear, and that's kind of the case for all of the pitchers who have recently undergone surgery for it.

Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi knew he had to perform major surgery on his staff — while keeping the payroll at about $ 50 million, less than a third of the Yankees» outlay.

Red Sox Boston has the American League's best ERA (4.19 through Sunday) and is anticipating righthander Bret Saberhagen's return from shoulder surgery next month, so Dan Duquette will be one of the few general managers not looking for pitching.

Breast implant surgery is performed under a general anaesthetic and involves making a series of incisions, in inconspicuous areas that produce minimal scarring, to allow the implants to be inserted.

You also need to accept the general risks of surgery and anesthetic, reduced sensation in your nipples, hematomas, capsular contracture and discomfort.

I was never a «boob» person, but I'm going on 33 years old and finding myself wondering about implants, which surprises the hell out of me because surgery in general scares the daylights out of me.

But better infection control, epidurals instead of general anesthesia except in dire emergencies, new incisions sites, and the million and one little tricks surgeons have picked up to make all surgeries safer, all add up.

«I know a doctor who performed general surgery while pumping her breasts,» says Debi Page Ferrarello, M.S.N., M.S., I.B.C.L.C., director of family education and lactation at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.

A total of 134 perinatal deaths occurred to women delivering outside hospital between 1981 and 1994 and all were treated as «home» births, though five actually took place in an ambulance, three in another person's house, and two in a general practitioner's surgery; 13 others were to women who were never traced.

General Anesthesia: The use of drugs that produce a sleep - like state to prevent pain during surgery.

February 1992 The General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel reconvenes to review the new information regarding the safety of silicone breast implants.

«Toddlers are at higher risk of developing cavities than at any other stage of development,» Dr. Manuel A. Cordero, a New Jersey - based doctor of dental surgery and president at Academy of General Dentistry, tells Romper in an email interview.

At the end of December, I will be having knee surgery to repair my ACL, which is an outpatient procedure, but does require general anesthesia.

«Experience: It is often better to get a surgeon who has years of general oral surgery experience.

The type of general anesthesia used in dental and oral surgery offices is actually a type of light sedation that is mild and wears off quickly.

Recent heart surgery means he is awaiting doctors» advice on whether or not he should put himself through the strain of a full - on general election campaign.

The hospital announced the closure of three surgical clinics — General Surgery, Neurosurgery and Urology — from February 6, until further notice.

«That this House opposes the Government's plans to impose a polyclinic, or GP - led health centre, in every primary care trust; regrets that this could result in the closure of up to 1,700 GP surgeries; is concerned that the imposition of polyclinics against the will of patients and GPs could be detrimental to standards of care, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, by breaking the vital GP / patient link; further regrets that these plans are being imposed without consultation; is alarmed at the prospective loss of patient access to local GP services at a time when care closer to home should be strengthened; believes that the Government's plans would jeopardise the independence and commissioning capability of general practice in the future; supports the strengthening of access to diagnostic and therapeutic services without undermining the structure of GP services; and calls on the Government to reconsider its plans for polyclinics.

In the largest study to date, Dr. Davidson's study compared rates of apnea after general or regional anesthesia among 722 infants and found that while there was little evidence for a difference in late apnea, there was evidence that regional anesthesia reduced the risk of significant apnea in the first 30 minutes after surgery.

«Her work has the potential to change the face of transplantation and to save countless lives,» said Dr. James Markmann, chief of transplant surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

«From a clinical standpoint, our findings suggest that CRP could be used to risk stratify patients before surgery, enabling proactive interventions that target patients at risk for developing postoperative delirium,» said Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, PhD, co-lead author and postdoctoral fellow in the Division of General Medicine at Primary Care at BIDMC and HMS.

This is yet another compelling reason to correct mitral regurgitation early,» explained Tirone E. David, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital and the University of Toronto.

The researchers combined data from lung cancer patients in The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD) with claims data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Overall, 6.5 percent of thyroid cancer patients had general post-operative complications in the month after surgery, and 12 percent had complications specific to thyroid surgery within the year after their operation.

Ten percent of older patients developed general post-operative complications and 19 percent had thyroid surgery - related complications.

«In examining SAGES patients who had undergone major elective surgery, we compared patients who developed delirium with those who did not,» explained Vasunilashorn, a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and HMS.

«Although we found IL - 6 elevated significantly in the delirious patients two days after surgery, we did not find the elevation to be statistically significant at one month following surgery,» said co-lead author Ngo, biostatistician in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS.

«There is a global interest in avoiding general anesthesia in breast cancer surgery whenever possible because of potential long - term effects.

«For most patients with diabetes and a BMI (body mass index) greater than 35, bariatric surgery increases life expectancy,» says Daniel Schauer, MD, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UC.

It is the world's first randomized control trial for breast cancer surgery that compares the use of ultrasound - guided paravertebral blocks — a local anesthetic freezing that blocks breast nerves — to general anesthetic.

Gallbladder removal and colon surgery were among procedures associated with highest risk of new persistent opioid use, said lead abstract author Calista Harbaugh, M.D., a general surgery resident at the University of Michigan Medical School and pediatric surgery researcher at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the Michigan Opioid Engagement Network.

Researchers studying the effects of general anesthesia recently made a startling discovery: the drugs used to knock out patients during surgery may lead to increased pain when they wake up.