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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 curre...
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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 ac...
Minimally Invasive Surgery

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...
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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 co...
Minimally Invasive Surgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery


Emerging trends
The substantial developments in surgery over the last century with the advent of antiseptic substance anaesthetic agents antibiotics surgical nutrition and organ transplantation did not modify the basic tools of surgery and even the surgical techniques remained basically unchanged But in the last...
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The Risk Business


ISO has become the definitive world standard for medical devices According to Alfred M Dolan and Professor Samuel Lunenfeld a clear understanding of this standard is essential for all manufacturers striving to ensure that their devices are safe and effective The provision of safe and effective m...
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Are Pre-Filled Syringes the Future?


Paljit Mudhar a research analyst in Frost Sullivans pharmaceuticals and biotechnology healthcare EMEA division examines the the latest developments in disposable medical products with a closer look at the future of prefilled syringes Recent years have seen a movement towards plastic and disposab...
Changing Landscapes in Anaesthesia

Changing Landscapes in Anaesthesia


Dr Florian Nuevo reports on how new surgical procedures and changing demographics are having an impact on anaesthesiology and how the philippines is coping with the situation A number of changes have occured concurrently in the field of surgery and anaesthesia In the Philippines the national anae...
Anaesthesiology

Anaesthesiology


Pain Relief in Childhood
Most children undergoing surgery around the world do not receive adequate pain relief writes Dr Dilip Pawar professor of anaesthesiologyAll India Institute of Medical Sciences To make a uniform level of pain relief available around the world may not be possible In most parts of the developing wor...
Heart Valve Surgeries

Heart Valve Surgeries


Innovations and new developments
Surgery directed at valvular heart conditions dates back almost years when the first efforts were made to relieve mitral valve stenosis Rheumatic fever was a common disease worldwide and frequently resulted in mitral stenosis The scarred twoleaflet mitral valve
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