The risk for surgical site infection following hip arthroplasty was associated with male sex, BMI, operation time, diabetes, heart disease, and ASA class.

Older adults may benefit from a recently introduced tool that assesses their risk for heart disease, according to a new study ...

D-PLEX100 plus SoC reduced infection or death by 38% vs. SoC alone (10.9% vs. 18.1%; p<0.005). Deep and superficial SSI rates dropped by 58% with D-PLEX100 plus SoC (3.8% vs. 9.5%; p<0.005).

Beyond 2 years, CABG with flow assessment was associated with a higher risk for new coronary angiography and new revascularization. Outcomes with surgical coronary revascularization were no better ...

2 Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 3 Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Introduction As surgical accessibility ... variance will be used to calculate and ...

Surgeons should aim to prevent intraoperative femur fractures by identifying high-risk patients and surgical risk factors. Sound change during broaching is key to know when to stop. KOLOA ...

Intuitive Surgical reported strong Q2 2024 earnings, with $2.01 billion in revenue, surpassing analysts' estimates. The company's high valuation presents risk, though long-term prospects in the ...

Objective: This study aimed to develop and validate a novel web-based risk calculator for predicting SSI in HIV-positive fracture patients undergoing surgery in China ... datasets (Figure 1). Figure 1 ...

other patients may be quite high risk. The calculators give you much more granularity.” The tricuspid calculator gives operators access to contemporary STS data, drawn from 13,587 patients in the STS ...

These data demonstrate increased volumes and improved outcomes for both isolated tricuspid repair and replacement and are reflected in the new risk models and calculator. Surgical aortic valve ...