surgery

After a long saga for the past 8 months involving chronic infections and adverse reactions to multiple treatments, I am due to have surgery soon, a ureteroscopy, to remove a kidney stone. I would prefer not to have surgery of course but there is apparently no other options given the placement of...

Great Ormond Street reviews 700 children treated by ex-surgeon 8 September 2024 Jessica Rawnsley & Jemma Crew https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3035e26gl0o

Thrombotic Consequences of COVID-19 Infection on Microsurgical Reconstruction Sabrina H. Han; Kyle Ockerman; Matthew Kirchmier; Markos Mardourian; Jaimie Bryan; Elizabeth Cox; Harvey Chim; Lisa Spiguel; Arash Momeni; Sarah Sorice-Virk BACKGROUND Evidence has shown increased morbidity and...

From the ME Association — The ME Association and patients with ME/CFS have been working with the College to produce a patient information leaflet that is being launched this afternoon in a talk by Professor Anton Krige and Dr Charles Shepherd: ME/CFS Implications for Anaesthesia. We hope this...

Full title: Differences in outcomes after total hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis between patients with and without central sensitivity syndromes other than fibromyalgia Abstract We investigated the differences in outcomes after total hip arthroplasty (THA) for hip osteoarthritis (HOA)...

Trans-auricular vagus nerve stimulation to reduce perioperative pain and morbidity: protocol for a single-blind analyser-masked randomised controlled trial Amour B.U. Patel, Phillip P.W.M. Bibawy, Zehra Majeed, Weng Liang Gan, Gareth L. Ackland Background Established or acquired loss of...

Are there any hospitals in the UK that are more ME aware? I am 33 and, after years, have got a good quality of life back. I work and am trying to have children. However, I now need foot surgery and am terrified of the dismissive attitude of the doctors I have talked to and the idea that...

[Trigger warning: death] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/10/asia/south-korea-ghost-doctors-plastic-surgery-intl-hnk-dst/index.html This article relates the case of a 24 year old South Korean man who died from a plastic surgery operation to cut his jaw bones. He was operated on not only by the...

Preoperative cognitive-behavioural intervention improves in-hospital mobilisation and analgesic use for lumbar spinal fusion patients https://bmcmusculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12891-016-1078-8 Shows no improvement and yet they still conclude it did improve things by...

"Ian Harris explains that more than half of commonly performed surgical operations may be placebos. Adequate studies using a blinded control group are essential." "Ian Harris, a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, wrote a book titled...

I think the spreading and endorsing of pseudoscience has gone far enough. I would like to make a personal request here to the following people to publicly declare that they agree that disseminating claims linking ME/CFS to spinal problems requiring surgery is unwarranted and irresponsible. I...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51528800 “A doctor who worked at the same private healthcare firm as rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson has been suspended, it has emerged. Spire Healthcare said Mike Walsh - a specialist in trauma and orthopaedic surgery - was suspended in April 2018 over...

Just been hearing about this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-51369881 Can't find the direct quote but apparently the inquiry also said that he should have been suspended while the inquiry was ongoing, not allowed to continue with his malpractice. relevent for pwME as...

When I had acute appendicitis in 2015, the results came back that it was a rare case of granulomatous appendicitis - with a prevalence of order 1% of all appendicitis cases. "Granulomatous appendicitis (GA) is a rare form of appendicitis described to occur due to varieties of causes such as a...

FYI https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/health/implant-brain-injury.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage Wonder what the cost is.... Surgery done at Stanford

https://www.propublica.org/article/dr-death-christopher-duntsch-a-surgeon-so-bad-it-was-criminal

This Thursday, almost two weeks ago, I threw out my back, I thought. I slithered to the floor. I knew I had a herniated disc, but I didn't know how bad things were. I have had a herniated disc for a year and a half now. That night, I had to pee constantly. Very quickly I realized, I had done...

Hi all! I'm working to improve the quality of information for patients with ME, fibro, EDS, POTS, mast cell activation disorder having surgery as well as crowdsourcing a set of best practices for hospitals. The former will eventually be packaged into handouts patients can give their surgeon...

Open access at https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12967-018-1397-7