General Surgery News

• The Rocky Path to Parenthood During Cardiology Training An international survey found significant variation in parental leave policies, including scant time off for trainees in the US and Asia vs other countries.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Postpolypectomy Bleeding: Does Prophylactic Clipping Reduce Risk? The removal of polyps has a high risk of hemorrhage, which may be increased with the use of oral anticoagulants.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Warning Against Increased Lingual Frenotomy in Infants An increase in lingual frenulum surgeries in children after their discharge from maternity clinics has troubled clinicians. Some cite a lack of quality data about the procedure.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Exploding E-Cigarettes Cause Traumatic Injuries in Teens Burns and cuts caused by e-cigarette explosions have required hospitalization and surgery for teenage vapers, warn investigators.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• SCAI 2022 SCAI Issues Guidelines for PFO Management, Makes Case for Expansion Clinical guidelines address expanded indications for percutaneous patent foramen ovale closure along with antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Occult Hypoxemia More Common in Patients With Darker Skin? Black and Hispanic patients undergoing anesthesia may be more likely than White patients to experience occult hypoxemia, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• New ASA Decision Tree Tool Helps Treat Difficult Airways A new decision tree tool developed by an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) task force helps anesthesiologists manage their patients who have difficult airways.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Concerns Over Mandatory Nurse Overtime Increased During Pandemic More than half of states lack legislation prohibiting forced overtime for nurses; organizations urge reform as turnover and burnout create safe staffing challenges.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• In Patients With CBD Stones, Cholecystectomy Wound Infection Rates Similar With Broad- vs Narrow-Spectrum Antibiotics In patients with common bile duct stones undergoing same-admission cholecystectomy, surgical site infection rates are low and similar with broad- and narrow-spectrum antibiotics, observational data suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 JenaValve Trilogy Takes Another Step Forward in Severe AR The TAVI system met both the primary safety and efficacy endpoints in the first real-world study since its recent approval in Europe. A pivotal trial in ongoing in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 LYDEN: Better Hemodynamics With Evolut vs Sapien in ViV The self-expanding and balloon-expandable valves were comparable, however, on other outcomes in the challenging setting of small failed surgical valves.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Patients' Bad Behavior Provokes Burnout in Physicians: Study Mistreatment and discrimination by patients increase the risk of physician burnout; for 1 in 5 physicians, patients refused care because of the physician's appearance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• NeoChemo Preserves Rectum in Half of Patients With Rectal Cancer Among patients with stage II or stage III rectal adenocarcinoma, organ preservation is achievable in up to half of patients who undergo total neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• ACMS 2022 Post-Mohs Bleeding Risk in Patients on Ibrutinib for CLL Studied Two studies evaluated the risk, with results indicating that holding the treatment before and after surgery helps reduce the risk for bleeding.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Shared Decision-Making 'Only Sometimes Useful' in Surgery A new study finds that surgeons' use of shared decision-making is highly variable, but editorialists argue that this approach may be inappropriate when a scenario is clear-cut.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Healthcare Facilities Can Prevent 35% to 70% of Infections Hand washing and other infection prevention and control practices can cut 35% to 70% of healthcare infections, according to a global study from the World Health Organization.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 Distal Radial Snuffbox Technique Comes Up Short in DISCO-RADIAL The trial missed its primary endpoint but bolsters the case for using the technique when coupled with best practices to prevent radial artery occlusion.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Mastectomy May Not Be Necessary for Young Breast Cancer Patients Mastectomies among younger women with nonmetastatic invasive breast cancer may not always be necessary, suggests a study that shows survival outcomes are similar after a lumpectomy.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• ISCHEMIA Substudy Data Just Don't Add Up, Cardiac Surgeons Say Discrepancies between the paper and supplemental data have been slow to come to light, but the substudy authors say it's a simple formatting error.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Imiquimod Cream Offers Alternative to Surgery for Vulvar Lesions Topical imiquimod offers an alternative to surgery for women with HPV-related precancerous lesions, concludes the first head-to-head randomized trial of the two approaches.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022