Category: Surgery
April 9, 2019 – HIV Risk
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Anchor lead: Does having HIV make kidney transplantation more risky? Elizabeth Tracey reports HIV infection today is a chronic, manageable condition, so much so that life expectancy for someone with HIV is essentially the same as someone without the virus. …
April 8, 2019 – HIV-HIV Transplant
Joy In Medicine – Surgery
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Program notes: 0:15 Surgery is the last bastion? 1:15 Joy in working with the team 2:16 Everyone expected to speak up 3:20 Culture of safety 4:17 Teaching in the OR 5:15 Grow together, learn together 6:15 Have everybody introduce themselves …
August 22, 2018 – VTE and Transfusion
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Anchor lead: Blood transfusions increase someone’s risk for blood clots, but there are strategies in place to minimize risk, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood transfusions around the time of surgery increase someone’s risk of aberrant blood clots twofold, a study by …
August 21, 2018 – Transfusions and Clots
November 16, 2017 – Surgery, Blood Pressure and Age
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Anchor lead: How aggressively should blood pressure be lowered during an operation in an older person? Elizabeth Tracey reports A person’s blood pressure before surgery should be a consideration in how low to go during surgery, a recent study asserts, …
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