Surgery
Conference Coverage
Virtual learning platform effective in teaching suturing
It is now possible to acquire and improve laparoscopic surgical skills without traveling to a meeting or taking an off-site course, according to...
News
Low-volume surgeons have most complications with mesh slings
The incidence of serious complications after mesh-sling surgery for stress urinary incontinence is relatively low, but patients treated by...
News
Repeat uterine preservation procedures likely for women with fibroids
Women who undergo a uterus-preserving procedure to manage uterine fibroids often have to have further procedures, according to Dr. Elisa Martin-...
Conference Coverage
ESC: Statins reduce postoperative noncardiac surgery event rates
Key clinical point: Statin therapy, given the week before a host of noncardiac surgical procedures, reduced the postoperative risk for death and...
Clinical Review
2015 Update on vaginal hysterectomy
A few innovative tools can greatly ease the operative experience for both surgeon and patient
From Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Sodium fluorescein as an alternative to indigo carmine during intraoperative cystoscopy
With indigo carmine unavailable for use during cystoscopy, surgeons need an alternative contrast agent. Could sodium fluorescein be of use and, if...
News
Burning the midnight oil does not impact surgical outcomes
Key clinical point: The risks of adverse outcomes of elective daytime surgical procedures were similar whether or not the attending physician had...
News
Surgeons tout Essure fix without hysterectomy
Gynecologic surgeons say hysterectomy isn’t the only option for women who want to remove the Essure device and that in about a third of cases they...
Commentary
Keeping laparoscopy safe for the obese patient
The minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon is dealing with an increasing population of women with comorbidities related to their obesity that can...
Commentary
Positioning obese patients for minimally invasive gynecologic surgery
In the past 15 years, and particularly in the past decade, evidence that obese patients benefit from laparoscopic surgery, compared with...
News
Intestinal obstruction risk increased in some childhood cancer survivors
Childhood cancer survivors are at an increased risk for developing an intestinal obstruction requiring surgery (IOS) 5 or more years after the...