Forbes

How Safe Is Spine Surgery? What To Know And What To Ask Your Surgeon

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...
Healio

Office-based ophthalmic surgery can be performed safely

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Office-based surgery can be performed safely across several different ophthalmic procedures, ...
Open Heart

Feasibility, safety and outcomes of a virtual ward with remote monitoring for patients awaiting urgent coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Background Delays in performing urgent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery are increasing across the UK, with ...

Kirby Plastic Surgery’s City Surgery Center Renews Quad A Accreditation

City Surgery Center, the on-site surgical facility at Kirby Plastic Surgery, renewed its accreditation from Quad A, the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, for the ...

Surgical Directions Impacts More Than 1 Million Patients in 2025 Through Hospital Partnerships Nationwide

Surgical Directions announced today that through its partnerships with health systems and provider groups across the country, more than 1 million patients were touched in 2025 by operational, clinical ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Study: 50% Accuracy in Surgical Safety Checklists

Though surgical safety checklists may be completed in 85 percent of surgeries, they are accurate only 50 percent of the time, according to an article published in Journal of the American College of ...
NPR

Pre-Surgery Safety Checks: Redundant or Reassuring?

But I don't know if my analogy is reassuring since despite aviation's good safety record, most of us are at least a little afraid of flying, and surgery, too. If you're sitting in the pre-op waiting ...
VTDigger

Dr. Jessica McNally: Vermont eye surgery safety at risk

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and ...
Healio

Eyetelligence platform improves cataract surgery accuracy, safety

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting, Lobanoff shared real-world cases in which ...

Effort to ‘modernize’ eye care shouldn’t come at the expense of patient safety

In a recent New Hampshire Bulletin commentary, Dr. Benjamin Choiniere argued that authorizing optometrists to perform surgery ...
Medical Xpress

Taking semaglutide before bariatric surgery does not improve weight loss or safety, study finds

Mass General Brigham researchers found that total weight loss did not increase for patients who took semaglutide before having weight-loss surgery, suggesting that a surgery-first strategy could lead ...