General Surgery News

• ACMS 2022 Bupivacaine Following Mohs Surgery Reduces Opioid Use Patients report lower pain and opioid use with a single injection of the local anesthetic compared with placebo.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Jury Is In? Survival Benefit With Lap Surgery for Rectal Cancer Compared with open surgery, patients who underwent laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer had significantly improved 5-year overall survival.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Writing Out Common Medical Terms Boosts Patient Knowledge: Study Research published in JAMA Network Open shows that patients are more likely to understand their health conditions when healthcare providers avoid abbreviations and acronyms in written communications.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• ACMS 2022 Topical Tranexamic Acid Reduces Bleeding Following Mohs Surgery The treatment significantly benefitted second intention wounds prone to bleeding.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Radiologists Feeling the Effects of Contrast-Media Shortage The current global shortage of iodinated contrast media is forcing radiologists to make changes in diagnostic imaging to conserve contrast without affecting patient health.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Alert RaDonda Vaught Sentenced to Probation for Patient Death The 38-year-old nurse received 3 years of supervised probation and was permanently stripped of her nursing license. She also apologized for the first time to the family of Charlene Murphey.
  News Alerts, May 13, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Hormonal Therapy Produces Best Cryptorchidism Outcomes Independent of surgery, hormonal therapy of young boys with cryptorchidism promotes testicular descent and increases the likelihood of adequate sperm quality when they are adults.
  First Look, May 13, 2022
• Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases: ASTRO Updates Guidelines The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued new recommendations on radiotherapy treatment in patients with brain metastases, which updates the last guidelines issued in 2012.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• What Do Ultrasound Images Find in Superficial Lumps and Bumps? The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound offers illustrated clinical tips in a recently published paper to help diagnose and manage commonly identified masses.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• ECO 2022 When Is the Ideal Time to Try for a Baby After Bariatric Surgery? European researchers assessed the weight of babies born to mothers after bariatric surgery and suggest an optimal time to conceive post-surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Early-Onset Colon Cancer Projected to Double by 2030 “We’re seeing a lot of younger people with this disease. It’s rather alarming,” says the author of a review that predicts further increases.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• A Computerized Test May Help Detect Cognitive Impairment Results correlated with Alzheimer’s prone regions on MRI .
  First Look, May 12, 2022
• ED Staff Speak Out About Workplace Violence, Ask for Mitigation How much is workplace violence contributing to the great resignation in healthcare and what might be done to make clinicians feel more supported? ED doctors and nurses have some ideas.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• ESMO BCC 2022 Twenty Years and Counting: Tamoxifen Benefit in Breast Cancer New data from a 20-year follow-up of patients with ER-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer identifies those who have lasting benefit from tamoxifen.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• ESMO BCC 2022 Uninformed Breast Cancer Patients Are Making Treatment Decisions Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are generally uninformed about their diagnosis and are making uninformed treatment decisions, concludes a Dutch study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Docs Check Mail for Ways to Return -- and Ruin -- Extra Opioids One proposal would require that prescriptions be given with envelopes to send back unused medication.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• What Are Common Misconceptions About Nurses? Nurses nationwide recently expressed outrage after Bravo talk show host Andy Cohen commented about the attractiveness of a nurse-actress on his show. Do you confront misconceptions about your role?
  Medscape Reader Polls, May 10, 2022
• Pandemic's Impact on Surgical Training Is Lessening, but Trainees' Mental Health Still at Risk Compared to Spring 2020, by Summer 2021 surgical education and training were less negatively impacted by the pandemic, although disruption of emotional well-being remained high, survey results showed.
  Reuters Health Information, May 09, 2022
• Cold Forceps on Par With Cold Snare Polypectomy for Tiny Polyps The TINYPOLYP trial finds cold forceps polypectomy noninferior to cold snare polypectomy for complete resection of nonpedunculated polyps measuring 3 mm or less.
  Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022