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The scientist He Jiankui at a medical conference in Hong Kong last year, when he announced he had created the world’s first genetically edited babies. Image Credit…Kin Cheung/Associated Press He
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A patient has died after she was set alight during surgery for cancer, succumbing to burns on 40 percent of her body. Surgeons had used an electric scalpel and flammable
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The difference between the Rod of Asclepius and the Caduceus. The Rod of Asclepius is an ancient Greek symbol associated with medicine, consisting of a serpent coiled around a rod. In ancient Greek
From unspeakable agony to unlocking consciousness. We expect to feel no pain during surgery or at least to have no memory of the procedure. But it wasn’t always so. Until
The earliest surgeries in history were crude at best and likely to have been performed out of desperation or ignorance. Surgery as we know it did not truly begin until the late
Debakey forceps are a type of atraumatic tissue forceps used in vascular procedures to avoid tissue damage during manipulation. They are typically large (some examples are upwards of 12 inches (36 cm) long), and
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An Israeli company is helping doctors treat cancer by freezing tumors with liquid nitrogen. IceCure Medical, a company based in Israel’s northern coastal city of Caesarea, claim their non-invasive ProSense™
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This is a list of human anatomy mnemonics, categorized and alphabetized. Afferent vs efferent Afferent connection arrives and an efferent connection exits. Anterior leg Compartment “The Hospitals Are Not Dirty Places” Tibialis anterior extensor Hallucis longus anterior tibial Artery deep fibular Nerve
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NHS/Royal Derby Hospital A hospital trust has become the first in the UK to introduce disposable sterile hijabs for staff. The Royal Derby Hospital launched the headscarves earlier this month after one of its
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For a split second, the ER is totally silent.All eyes – and there are a lot of them: nurses, doctors, techs, an EMT standing just off to the side – are
I’m Interested In The Surgeon’s Ego… Social sciences fascinate me. Social psychology, influence, compliance gaining, emotional intelligence, interpersonal dynamics, how to lead change…all of these topics run rampant in our
The Osia system bypasses the damaged parts of the ear and then sends vibrations through the bone to the cochlea. Australia-based Cochlear has received clearance from the US Food and
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Adult ALS includes advanced interventions after basic life support has started and when appropriate an AED has been used. The transition between basic and advanced life support should be seamless
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Halo-gravity traction is a way to pull the head and spine upward carefully, applying a slow stretch to the spine. Doctors do this by attaching a halo (a metal ring
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The point of surgical procedures is to save or improve the quality of our lives, but things can and do go wrong because of system or human errors. In too
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Surgeons have removed a kidney weighing 7.4 kilograms (16.3 pounds) — the equivalent size of two newborn babies — from a patient in India. It is thought to be the heaviest
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A patient at a southern New Jersey hospital inadvertently got a transplanted kidney that was intended for another patient, officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday. The 51-year-old patient was on the transplant list
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The president of Massachusetts General Hospital has long insisted that it was perfectly safe for some surgeons to oversee two operations at the same time. Dr. Peter Slavin told the Globe
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Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup said Sunday it is canceling more than 140 elective surgeries this week after discovering flecks of plastic on some surgical trays. KIRO 7 reached out to a spokesperson
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Kalan, M.D., (left) and Darrell Cass, M.D., (right) perform in utero spina bifida surgery. Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida
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Robotic surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery. “Minimally invasive” means that instead of operating on patients through large incisions, we use miniaturized surgical instruments that fit through a
TORONTO — More than 550 objects have been unintentionally left in Canadian medical and surgery patients between 2016 and 2018, and the problem appears to be getting worse. A new
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Over a year since the history-making operation, the recipient of the world’s first total penis and scrotum transplant – an injured veteran of the US Armed Forces – is “feeling
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Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to successfully perform a robotic single-port kidney transplant, which enables all surgical instruments and the donor kidney to be placed through
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You have to get used to being invisible as an anaesthetist. A large percentage of the public has no idea that we’re medically qualified. I’ve been asked how many GCSEs
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A specialist surgeon is someone who focuses on a particular field of medicine such as cardiology, neurology, or another specific medical field. All specialist doctors have many years of education
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Sterile Processing Department The Sterile Processing Department (SPD), also known as the Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD), is the area in a hospital where cleaning and sterilization of devices used in medical
A young woman’s life could have been saved if she had had urgent surgery more quickly, a coroner has ruled. Arohaina Gilbert, 25, died within hours of being rushed to Wairoa
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a type of scan that uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the body. An MRI scanner
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Building a new operating room is a complex process that involves balancing needs of facility staff with construction costs, while also looking forward to future healthcare trends. To make planning
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