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- Postoperative complications

557 documents for postoperative complications

- New Tonsillectomy Technique Cuts Postoperative Complications by 47%.
Patients Undergoing Intracapsular Technique Experience Less Pain, Delayed Bleeding than Traditional Electrodissection Tonsillectomy Group MINNEAPOLI...
- Business Wire
- November 08, 2007
- Vatican Envoy to U.S. Dies in Hospital
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the papal ambassador to the United States who helped bring about a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and clerical sex-abuse victims three years ago, has died in a U.S. hospital, the Vatican said Thursday. Archbishop Sambi, 73, died Wednesday in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he had been placed on assisted ventilation. He had undergone surgery two weeks ago and was readmitted to the hospital following postoperative complications.
- Buffalo News
- July 29, 2011
- 42 CFR 409.33 - Examples of skilled nursing and rehabilitation services.
... in his or her condition or complications resulting from restricted, but increasing, mobilit... in the complicated, unstabilized postoperative period, for example, after hip prosthesis or catar...
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 42: Public Health

- Mohs micrographic surgery for the treatment of cutaneous lymphadenoma.
... and there were no intraoperative or postoperative complications. After seven months, no recurrence h...
- Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
- Vol. 10 Nbr. 11, November 2011
- Obese Patients Run Higher Risk On Operative Complications
[Olumuyiwa A. Bamgbade, M.D.] and the other researchers found much higher rates of the following complications in obese patients: heart attack, with obese patients experiencing five times the rate of attack than non-obese patients (0.5 percent versus 0.1 percent); wound infection, with a 1.7-times higher rate (6 percent versus 3.5 percent); peripheral nerve injury, with a four-times higher rate (0.4 percent versus 0.1 percent); and urinary tract infection, with a 1.5-times higher rate (3.9 percent versus 2.6 percent). The postoperative complication rate of 7.7 percent in this study-compared with a national average of 4 percent-partly reflects the complexity of surgery and patients at U-M, a tertiary care institution. The authors also note that the study took place in Michigan, one of 10...
- La Prensa; San Antonio, Tex.
- August 18, 2009
- Lucky Break: Quit Smoking After Fracture Surgery for Better Healing
Study finds patients who avoid tobacco for six weeks after surgery have fewer postoperative complications ROSEMONT, Ill., June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Smokers who refrain from using tobacco during the six-week period following emergency surgery for an acute fracture heal more quickly and experience fewer complications than patients who continue to smoke during the healing process, according to a study published in the June 2010 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS).
- U.S. Newswire
- June 01, 2010
- Exercise-related bilateral leg atypical claudication in female Olympic taekwondo player: a case report.
.... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] . No postoperative complications were observed but symptoms did not c...
- Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
- Vol. 10 Nbr. 4, December 2011
- Study Indicates Adenosine Reduces Postoperative Complications In Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1999-- Medco Research, Inc.(NYSE:MRE) announced that clinical research results published to...
- Business Wire
- April 28, 1999
- Actuaries: Medical Errors Cost Hospitals Billions ; Perioperative It Systems Help in Their Reduction
ATLANTA, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent report from the Society of Actuaries (SOA) found that medical errors cost hospitals $19.5 billion in 2008. According to the SOA report, the top three most costly medical errors were pressure ulcers, postoperative infections, and mechanical complications of device, implant or graft. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080722/SISLOGO)
- U.S. Newswire
- August 26, 2010
- Briefs
After the mastectomy Women with breast cancer can undergo reconstructive surgery immediately after a mastectomy, without fear of delaying chemotherapy. But they may suffer more postoperative complications.
- The Record, Bergen County, NJ
- October 19, 2004