Surgical Speciality

Surgical Speciality is a specialty of healthcare, where patients are treated for better health. Surgical speciality centres have the capability to mould a body part and efficiently make it fit. Surgical services are kind of magic that they can perform behind the science. The major concept involved here is that they can find ways to change the body problems, and bring them back to original condition. Surgical Speciality is being provided by all the hospitals these days.

Perioperative Assessment and Management of Patients with Aortic Stenosis Undergoing Non-Cardiac Surgery

Accurate preoperative assessment plays a crucial role in identifying highrisk patients and implementing appropriate management strategies

Revolutionising Cerebrovascular Surgery

Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence and robotics
Cerebrovascular surgery encompasses a range of specialised procedures performed by neurosurgeons to address blood vessel conditions affecting the brain

Surgeon Volume in Multi-Arterial Revascularisation and Long-Term Survival

The approach of coronary artery bypass graft surgery CABG has been changing throughout the years with regards to the type of the bypass graft used

Occupational Hazards of Surgical Smoke in the Operating Room (OR)

Energy devices used during surgeries regardless of open or laparoscopic procedures can generate surgical smoke

Introducing a Novel Surgical Technique for Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect

V-Shaped double-layer patch technique
Currently popular surgical techniques for complete atrioventricular septal defect CAVSD are mainly twopatch technique and modified singlepatch technique

Personalising Management of Cardiac Surgery Patients Through Right Heart Biomarkers

Biomarkers were first introduced to clinical practice in the s and have since become a staple of diagnosis and prognosis in many areas of medicine A variety of biomarkers have been implicated in clinical care and research in the cardiovascular realm

Trends in Surgery of Kidney Tumours

Shift to less invasive and nephron-sparing techniques
The incidence of kidney tumours in Czech Republic is the highest in the world In it was in male and in female cases in per year Owing to this fact urologists in Czech Republic are focussed on surgery of kidney tumours At our department we treat over patients with kidney tumour surgically every year

Treatment of Gastric Cancer

Role of radiotherapy
Gastric cancer is the fourth most frequent malignancy in the world It is characterised by a high locoregional recurrence rate and poor prognosis Radical surgical dissection is the basis of cure in this disease However because most patients are at advanced stages surgery alone provides longterm survival of only per cent Randomised trials have shown...

Transection of the Liver

Overview of techniques
Over the past few decades the management of liver tumours has become a truly multidisciplinary speciality Advances in imaging medical oncology and interventional radiology have now allowed treatment with curative intent for many lesions that previously would have received palliation only However surgical resection remains the mainstay of management...

Laparoscopic Repair of Inguinal Hernia

Drug Delivery and Molecular Imaging
Minimal access surgery has been a surgical watershed which has ushered in a new era of technologyenabled surgery It has firmly established itself in the armamentarium of most surgeons With the advancement in the technology and instrumentation minimal access surgery has been successfully applied to most surgical procedures with favourable outcomes O...

Surgical PACS

Design and implementation
Model Guided Therapy MGT is a methodology complementing Image Guided Therapy IGT with additional vital patientspecific data It brings patient treatment closer to achieving more precise diagnosis more accurate assessment of prognosis and a more individualised planning execution and validation of a specific therapy MGT in its simplest instantiatio...

Advances in Cardiac Surgery

In the past decade minimally invasive surgical techniques have become prevalent in the field of cardiac surgery including minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass MIDCAB offpump coronary artery bypass OPCAB and minimal access atrial septal defect ASD closure and mitral and aortic valve surgery In addition to the development of new technolog...

Quality Assurance Programmes for Surgery

How and why in Asia?
A quality assurance programme in surgical practice is quite simply a mechanism to ensure that the patient consumer is subjected to the least threatening journey through the hospital during a period of treatment with an outcome that is deemed acceptable by international standards

Bariatric Surgery

Experience with medical tourism
Exorbitant costs of healthcare in industrialised nations ease and affordability of international travel favourable currency exchange rates in the global economy rapidly improving technology and standards of care in many countries of the world and most importantly proven safety of healthcare in select foreign nations have all led to the rise of medi...

Surgical Skills Simulation

Effect on quality and safety
To give patients the best possible care healthcare providers need to combine the three Ss These are the best Systems the best Science and the best Skills The outline of this is seen in figure Best Science incorporates concepts such as evidencebased care the use of randomised control trial data metaanalyses cochrane collaborations the development t...

Surgical Response to Mass Casualty Incidents

The Israeli Experience
The frequency of recorded Mass Casualty Incidents MCIs has increased over the past years with almost billion people being affected by disasters during the past years alone Approximately half of all natural disasters occur in Asia even though it comprises only of the total world area In the second half of the last century approximately of all d

Patient Safety in Surgery

Current \'key\' issues
Complications due to individual surgeons errors and system failures are inherent in surgical practice and represent important preventable causes of morbidity and mortality In spite of the increasing public attention to medical errors in general a new level of transparency for consumers and the current trend to process preventable adverse events sys...

Bariatric Surgery

The minimal access approach
Minimal access technology is a giant leap forward in delivering surgical care to patients The underlying principle of minimizing the trauma of surgical access met with such wide spread acceptance that there was an uncontrolled and unmonitored surge in its practice and application This resulted in accidents which nearly put this technique to disrepu...

Minimally Invasive Surgery

Rise of the robotic systems
Since the widespread introduction of minimally invasive surgery MIS in the early s initially with laparoscopic cholecystectomy extensive evidence has demonstrated its advantages over open surgery faster recovery with less pain and fewer complications The reason why MIS is so explosively popularized all over the world is that there is a significant...

Listen to the Patient

Assuring quality care
As noted in a previous dissertation of this publication embracing healthcare quality assurance in Asian healthcare requires the commitment of all parties involved in the patients hospital journey Underwood It is incumbent upon the institutions to provide appropriate frameworks to facilitate data collection and analysis and to support a cultu