Tag: surgery

  • Obese patients at higher risk during surgery

    Straightfromthedoc: Risk of Post-Operative Complications, Higher in Obese Patients: Morbidly obese patients had a death rate nearly twice as high as that of all other patients, had higher rate of cardiac arrest and have significantly higher risk of complications following surgery, including heart attack, wound infection, nerve injury and urinary tract infection. Such were the…

  • Survival advantage with surgery for elderly patients with prostate cancer?

    JAMA — Survival Associated With Treatment vs Observation of Localized Prostate Cancer in Elderly Men, December 13, 2006, Wong et al. 296 (22): 2683 Conclusions This study suggests a survival advantage is associated with active treatment for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer in elderly men aged 65 to 80 years. Because observational data cannot completely…