Crossed eyes is a condition in which the eyes don't line up with each other, and don't look in the same direction. The term doctors use for this is "strabismus." In some…
Males are 10 times more likely to have groin hernia surgery than females, thus females are underrepresented in most studies. In a Swedish hernia registry including >4…
Spinal versus general anesthesia for hip fracture surgery
Whether the use of spinal versus general anesthesia for hip fracture surgery affects outcomes is uncertain. In a multicenter randomized trial (REGAIN) comparing the two …
Carotid stenting versus endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid stenosis
Earlier trials comparing transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TF-CAS) with carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for asymptomatic carotid stenosis reported that the periprocedur…
Patient blood management (PBM) programs provide guidelines for appropriate use of blood transfusion. In a new series involving >400,000 hospital admissions over an ei…
Antibiotic therapy has been proposed as an alternative to surgery for uncomplicated appendicitis. In 2020, the Comparison of Outcomes of Antibiotic Drugs and Appendectom…
