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Anchor lead: How can harms for emergency surgeries be reduced? Elizabeth Tracey reports Seven operations account for the majority of complications, costs and death associated with emergency surgery, a recent study found. Robert Higgins, director of surgery at Johns Hopkins, …
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Anchor lead: Just a few surgeries top the list for emergencies and deaths, Elizabeth Tracey reports A mere seven operations top the list for common procedures performed as emergencies, and also account for 80 percent of deaths, costs relative to …
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This week’s topics include dementia and depression, complications of implanted defibrillators, the most common emergency surgeries, and treatment of insomnia. Program notes: 0:35 Treatment of insomnia 1:35 Medications only for short term 2:32 Has to be provided outside physician’s office …
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This week’s topics include mental health conditions and bariatric surgery, durability of bariatric surgery in adolescents, fresh or frozen fecal transplant, and a new treatment for COPD. Program notes: 0:38 Fresh or frozen fecal transplant 1:39 Screen and store frozen …
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This week’s topics include safety of kidney donation, off-label use of prescription drugs, death in middle age, and spending and malpractice. Program notes: 0:34 Death in middle aged people 1:35 In contrast to everywhere else in the world 2:35 Opiates? …
