Obstructive sleep apnea and anesthesia: A potentially deadly combination if the anesthesiologist doesn't plan ahead
80% of people with obstructive sleep apnea haven't been diagnosed, so anesthesia providers must give careful attention
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Surgery
Why your surgeon or anesthesiologist might not be the one working on you in the operating room
Learn the secret shell game that occurs daily at many major hospitals
Three steps that you can take to reduce your anesthesia risk
Safe anesthesia care requires proper planning by an anesthesiologist
Texas Medical Board disciplines Houston Methodist Hospital pain management doctor for performing unnecessary surgery
Pain management doctor performs invasive procedure despite normal radiology images
What happens when a plastic surgeon ignores or downplays infection symptoms after surgery?
The Texas Medical Board took a disciplinary action against a Houston plastic surgeon who had his office administrator medically evaluate a patient
What you should know about the common risks of minimally-invasive laparoscopic surgery
Learn why the most dangerous part of a laparoscopic surgery is usually at the beginning
Surgeons admit under oath to operating on wrong kidney
Hospitals and operating rooms must have surgical time-out policies and procedures in place to prevent this type of never-event error
What you should know about unnecessary surgeries
A medical expert believes that Neil Armstrong's death was caused by an unnecessary surgery
What you need to know about cardiac clearance and how it might save your life
A simple, inexpensive test can identify cardiovascular risks that could make surgery dangerous
Hiatal hernia symptoms, surgery risks, and medical malpractice
Hiatal hernia surgery poses the risks of nicked or perforated stomach or bowel, infection, and sepsis