Getting sick right before surgery may or may not delay the scheduled procedure. If your illness is related to the reason you're having surgery, such as chest pain, then heart surgery is likely to be ...

The 79-year-old Lula was operated on Monday due to a brain bleed linked to a fall in October. The emergency surgery added to health concerns about the aging president, a standard-bearer of the ...

While there's no known cure for endometriosis, treatments such as surgery can help shrink tissue growth and ease your pain. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) You have long-term or serious pelvic ...

Colostomy surgery is a surgical procedure to remove part of the colon and create an opening to allow stool to pass out of the body. The stool is collected in a colostomy bag, which is worn on the ...

The Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery works closely with the departments of Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Urology. Together with ...

Despite being potentially lifesaving, bowel obstruction surgery is associated with a high rate of death during surgery or shortly after the procedure. If left untreated, bowel obstruction can be ...

The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing procedure. If no argument list is specified, the name must be unique in its schema. The name of an argument. Note that ALTER PROCEDURE does not ...

US doc's pay, the ticagrelor controversy and new RCTs, clopidogrel beats ASA, holding antiplatelets for non-cardiac surgery, and Prof Cleland and ASA dogma are the topics John Mandrola ...

Surgery is a procedure in which incision and physical manipulation are used to treat a patient with an injury or a disease. The patient's tissues are cut during this technique to permit the ...

If you have a lung disease, one treatment option your doctor may suggest is a type of surgery called a lobectomy, which involves removing a portion of your lung called a lobe. Your lungs are made ...

CREATE PROCEDURE defines a new procedure. CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE will either create a new procedure, or replace an existing definition. To be able to define a procedure, the user must have the ...