Routine preoperative testing before low-risk surgery is widely viewed as having low value. A new research article indicates that routine preoperative testing before low-risk surgery is common despite ...

Yet plenty of evidence suggests that preoperative testing is often unnecessary for low-risk surgeries. At best, it's costly and doesn't usually improve outcomes for patients. At worst, it can lead to ...

A new study out of the University of Chicago Medicine shows the overall rate of preoperative stress testing for hip and knee replacements is and has been decreasing consistently since 2006. Still, ...

Before undergoing surgery, patients often go through a number of tests: blood work, sometimes a chest X-ray, perhaps tests to measure heart and lung function. In fact, about half of patients who had ...

When type 1 diabetes complicates surgery Offering preoperative testing and evaluations in one convenient location can significantly reduce surgical cancellation rates. NEW ORLEANS — Nurse-practitioner ...

Preoperative Botox injections are a useful test for predicting how well patients with chronic migraine will respond to nerve decompression surgery, reports a study in the May issue of Plastic and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Due to low serum album levels in patients who undergo two-stage exchange for infected total joint replacement, a ...

Neoadjuvant rectal cancer (RC) score to predict survival: Potential surrogate endpoint for early-phase trials. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This ...

New guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), in collaboration with several other groups, are now available for the perioperative evaluation and ...