Category: Miscellaneous

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From Reuters An article about Dr. Atala and his pioneering work in making new bladders out of cells grown from the patient. Dr. Atala performed this for children and his main focus is in making organs out of a patient’s own cells that could be used transplantation. I can also envision the day when we…

Reading Kevin MDs blog, I came across an article about a man from Scotland who had the wrong kidney removed recently as well.

Debra Morrison, MD, anesthesiologist at UCI gave a talk on anesthesia and robotic prostatectomy. While many of the points she reviewed have been covered elsewhere, there were a couple of suggestions that she had that I had not heard of before. She mentioned that with the extreme Trendelenburg position not only is the diaphragm pushed…

Boy With Rare Swallowing Disorder Has Robotic Surgery at University of Illinois at Chicago Source: AScribe Newswire

Aggravated DocSurg posts his thoughts about the effect of an 80 hour work week on general surgery residents: >>Tuesday, December 27, 2005 80 hour week Redux This month’s American Journal of Surgery contains an interesting article from the Dept. of Surgery at Baylor in Houston entitled Impact of the 80-hour work week on resident emergency…