From pre-op checklists to better communication between doctors, hospitals are rethinking how patients prepare for surgery. Clearer instructions, coordinated care teams, and smarter scheduling can help ...

Hospitals have had success applying remote patient monitoring to chronic conditions to help track signs of a patient’s improving or worsening condition between medical appointments. Patients with ...

From uncovering hidden cancer before bariatric surgery to reversing frailty in heart patients, preoperative care is becoming more precise and impactful. Multidisciplinary teams and telemedicine are ...

John Di Capua, MD, is deputy CEO and chief medical officer of North American Partners in Anesthesia Corp.; vice president of anesthesia services of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System; and ...

With the inflation of prescriptions for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy, physicians began seeing a startling amount of regurgitation and aspiration in ...

[RELATED STORY: Rehab is a key to joint surgery recovery] Cindy Romanowski estimated she's replicated about the prep and recovery process about 10,000 times over nearly 20 years. She has written a new ...

All patients received intravenous antibiotics prior to surgery. Patients with prior infection, anesthesia class V poor-risk patients, patients requiring emergency surgery, and patients with missing ...

Until now patients waiting for heart surgery have been told to avoid exercise. But Graeme Harrison is part of a new study in ...

An innovative treatment for bladder cancer successfully prevented the recurrence of tumors and improved survival rates following surgery.

Paradigm, a specialty care management organization focused on delivering value-based solutions to improve outcomes for patients, payers, and providers, today announced that My Surgery has been ...