Robotic surgery represents the latest advancement in minimally invasive surgery, utilizing small incisions for procedures that once required large abdominal or thoracic openings. This technique offers the same…
In this episode of “Newsworthy Stories,” Jacqueline Jimenez speaks with Bohdan Pomahac, MD, a leading plastic surgeon at Yale New Haven Hospital, and Robert Chelsea, the first African-American…
Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, UCLA, discusses the upside and downside of technology to our brain and overall health. Reading: Straker L, Pollock C, Maslen…
Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, offers suggestions for reducing complication rates in patients…
Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, warns that a highly negative energy balance can…
Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, explains how human error derived from pharmacy-mixed total…
Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, explains how combining combining enteral and parenteral nutrition…
Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, explains how obesity has reached epidemic proportions in…
Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, discusses the problem of malnutrition in hospitalized patients.…
Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, discusses how to ensure that central line catheters…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When spontaneous circulation is restored after cardiac arrest, patients with hyperoxia have higher rates of in-hospital mortality than those with hypoxia or normal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospitalized cirrhotics are at increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) up until age 45 but not afterward, a new study suggests. Patients hospitalized…
