General surgery

UCB study N01108 investigated the efficacy and safety of hydroxyzine for the treatment of preoperative anxiety (100mg oral tablet single dose) in subjects undergoing general anesthesia before ambulatory surgery. A total of 300 subjects were randomly assigned to one of the 2 treatment groups, 152 of whom received placebo and the remaining 148 received hydroxyzine. Both treatment groups were similar with respect to demographic and baseline characteristics and among them nine subjects prematurely…

specializing in breast cancer. She earned her medical degree from the University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine. She also completed a surgical oncology fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. Tuttle is certified by the American Board of Surgery. She is also an Assistant Professor at Wright State University. She currently is taking new patients at the Kettering Medical Center, and Miami Valley Hospital South. Rebecca is currently looking for new patients. When asked “What makes…

Introduction “First of all, let’s recognize that the word ‘poison’ has no meaning , since, in medicine, the most violent poisons become health-giving remedies when they are used properly” (Dumas, Alexandre). An anesthesiologist is a physician who is trained in anesthesia and uses it to block out the pain of a patient. Anesthesiology deals with the management of patients under anesthesia, the support of life functions of patients under anesthesia, and the management of problems in pain relief…

decide which specialty I liked the best. I enjoyed internal medicine, surgery, and pediatrics. I loved OB/Gyn. But none of these really called out to me like I always imagined “the right specialty” would. It wasn’t until I shadowed in the ER that it clicked for me. Emergency medicine truly is the best specialty: it’s the perfect mixture of all of the specialties. It’s a field that stresses quick thinking and risk stratification, a general comfort with codes and traumas, and an attraction for…

This essay will focus on a patient that presented to the emergency department with an acute onset of severe pain in the flank region, and then later was admitted for a procedure called “Shockwave lithotripsy (SWL)” ("Surgery for Kidney Stones," para. 4). The aim of this essay is to demonstrate how this client’s diagnosis was determined. I will also include the pathophysiology, client presentation, medical history, clinical examinations and findings, diagnostic tests that were performed, other…

Modern medical technology and procedures save lives everyday. Some of the modern medical practices that we use today started in the Civil War. In a modern war, the majority of American soldiers will die due to enemy fire. Over two-thirds of the soldiers that died in the Civil War perished outside of the battlefield. There was a killer that was not fully understood, disease. (Dixon 2013) The Civil War is known as the deadliest war that the United States has ever engaged in with approximately 620…

captured by bystanders and runners the bomb doesn’t look big at all. It really just seems like a loud noise and thick cloud of white smoke surrounding everything. Jim also includes a statement from Lorraine Day, who is the Chief of Trauma surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. Lorraine says “we have smoke and bodies missing limbs, but we have no blood. That… is a physiological impossibility.” She goes on by saying “you cannot have limbs blown from bodies by explosives without having blood…

Aside from high-dose systemic methotrexate (MTX), there is little agreement on the best components of therapy for newly diagnosed PCNSL, and there is variation in clinical practice. General principles that guide therapy in patients with PCNSL include the following: both radiation and selected chemotherapeutic agents, surgery (mainly a diagnostic tool), and glucocorticoid medications. When using MTX, it is usually given at sufficiently high doses to penetrate the CNS. MTX is the most active…

Today, one of the preferred options for many to correct the refractive errors of the eyes is to go in for the laser-assisted procedures. This procedure is preferred over the glasses and the contact lenses. Even though the laser-assisted procedure technology has advanced a lot, it cannot be performed on everyone. If you choose to undergo the Lasik New York City procedure, you will have to undergo a proper evaluation. This evaluation which is done by the surgeon you choose is based on certain…

Letterman’s encouragement of triage organization that is still used today, techniques developed in response to sick and wounded soldiers led to advances in pain management and directly influenced the modern ambulance and trauma system. Union surgeon general, William A. Hammond, standardized, organized and designed new hospital layouts for the army that are still used today. Sanitation in hospitals and in the medical practice overall has changed greatly thanks to the adaptation of Germ Theory,…