Coronary Endothelial Function and Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

Coronary Endothelial Function and Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

Coronary epicardial and microvascular vasomotor dysfunction is not a predominant feature of spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Endothelial dysfunction is not implicated as the principal underlying mechanism. A total... read more

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine - on either end of the stethoscope. Medical... read more

Six Kidney Transplants in 30 Hours at University Hospital of Wales

Six Kidney Transplants in 30 Hours at University Hospital of Wales

Any transplant begins with a phone call but on Sunday, the phone in the Cardiff Transplant Unit kept ringing. It was to prove the start of a remarkable few days as specialists at University Hospital of Wales completed six... read more

Operator performs robot-assisted PCI from 100 miles away

Operator performs robot-assisted PCI from 100 miles away

Tele-stenting appears more possible now than ever, as Vascular Robotics announced an interventional cardiologist used its CorPath GRX System to perform a remote percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a pig 100 miles... read more

Help! I Need Somebody

Help! I Need Somebody

It's not so easy - how do you ask neurosurgery at 4 in the morning to see your patient with subdural hematoma? Or when you have a really sick patient that you don't know what to do with, or a difficult airway but you're the... read more

Mitochondrial Function in Sepsis

Mitochondrial Function in Sepsis

The authors were tasked with developing five specific questions regarding mitochondrial function in sepsis within the context of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative 14 (ADQI XIV) meeting held in Bogotá, Colombia, in late... read more

Operation Timing and 30-Day Mortality After Elective General Surgery

Operation Timing and 30-Day Mortality After Elective General Surgery

Elective general surgery appears to be comparably safe at any time of the workday, any day of the workweek, and in any month of the year. The binary outcomes of 32,001 elective general surgical patients at the Cleveland Clinic... read more

Foleys Aren’t Fun: Patient Study Shows Catheter Risks

Foleys Aren’t Fun: Patient Study Shows Catheter Risks

A new study puts large-scale evidence behind what many hospital patients already know: Having a urinary catheter may help empty the bladder, but it can hurt, lead to urinary tract infections, or cause other issues in the... read more

Survival outcomes after prolonged ICU length of stay among trauma patients: The evidence for never giving up

Survival outcomes after prolonged ICU length of stay among trauma patients: The evidence for never giving up

Prolonged intensive care unit length of stay (ICU-LOS) is associated with high mortality for medical and surgical patients. Existing literature suggests that this may not be true for trauma patients.The results reveal that... read more

New research shows why nutrition should be back on the table for surgical patients

New research shows why nutrition should be back on the table for surgical patients

More than 48 million people in the U.S. undergo surgery each year, and for decades the focus has been on making sure patients do not consume any food or drinks in the hours leading up to the surgery. Yet, 1 in 3 patients... read more

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia,... read more

The Role of Nutrition in Strong for Surgery

Host Paul Wischmeyer is joined by Thomas Varghese, MD, section head of General Thoracic Surgery at the University of Utah, to discuss the role of nutrition in the American College of Surgeons’ Strong for Surgery initiative.... read more

Why a terminally ill young woman has changed her mind about living

Why a terminally ill young woman has changed her mind about living

o face each day, Claire Wineland undergoes hours of breathing treatments. It's a reality of living with cystic fibrosis she's come to accept. But last month, as the nebulizer hummed loudly in her La Jolla, California, hotel... read more

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years

This story of Collins' four-year surgical residency traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year. With unparalleled humor, he recounts the disparity between... read more