Sentences with phrase «open appendectomy»

Including laparoscopic / open cholecystectomy, laparoscopic / open appendectomy, hernia repair and more.

For example, when she and her colleagues used the database to compare complication rates between minimally invasive surgery and open surgery in the four procedures, they found that minimally invasive appendectomies had about one - half the complications of open appendectomies.

Not exact matches

This makes pediatric appendectomy a perfect model to study how cost might influence patient behavior; for while the outcomes are similar, laparoscopy is considerably more expensive than the open operation.

The Johns Hopkins team analyzed the data to identify how many minimally invasive surgery procedures hospitals could be performing based on standard qualifications for four different operations: appendectomy, colectomy and hysterectomy, all procedures for which minimally invasive surgery has shown significant advantages over open procedures, and lung lobectomy, an operation for which the jury is still out on the risks versus benefits.

(In the pilot's jaw - dropping opening sequence, he botches a routine appendectomy, killing the patient, and then bullies his nurses into covering it up.)