WellSpan Waynesboro (Pa.) Hospital launched a robotic surgery program.
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Operating room "black boxes" are growing in popularity as a way to improve patient safety and operational efficiency, but not everyone is convinced the benefits outweigh the concerns.
The American College of Surgeons recognized 56 U.S. hospitals for meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2022.
Some surgeons have been learning to do complicated hernia repairs from Facebook posts, leading to patient safety concerns, The New York Times reported Oct. 30.
A recent study found only 8.9% of surgical leaders were part of an underrepresented racial group and only 16.2% were women.
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The District of Columbia has the highest number of physicians in surgery per capita at 68.8 in the U.S., while Idaho has the fewest at 7.58.
Even though wrong site surgeries happen in about 1 of 112,000 procedures, that single instance is what the surgical timeout process aims to prevent.
Surgeon positions are expected to grow by 1.7 percent from 2022 to 2032, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Patients treated by female surgeons are less likely to experience adverse outcomes 90 days to one year after surgery, according to a study published Aug. 30 in JAMA Surgery.
A 64-year-old Australian woman had an 8-centimeter roundworm extracted from her brain in the world's first case of the new parasitic infection.