Latest - Plastic Surgery

• Fat Grafting for Breast Reconstruction: Impact on Cancer Relapse? Fat Grafting for Breast Reconstruction: Any Impact on Cancer Relapse?
  Medscape General Surgery, April 2019
• Sexual Harassment Common in Surgical Training Programs About seven in 10 young female surgeons say they have experienced at least one form of sexual harassment during their training, according to a new survey.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2019
• Cannabis Users May Need More Anesthesia for Surgery People who regularly use cannabis may need more than twice the usual dose of anesthesia for surgery, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2019
• IM 2019'This is Our Lane': Doctors Work to Close Firearm Loopholes Bills that strengthen background checks and fund gun-violence-prevention research are supported by the American College of Physicians, as are 'red flag' laws being passed by some states.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Surgeon Wins Again in Lawsuit Appeal; More Decision upholds lower court ruling in favor of surgeon; misdiagnosis tops list of med-mal claims; Florida tries again to institute med-mal caps
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 2019
• FDA Modifies Alcohol Warning for Addyi, So-Called 'Female Viagra' Women taking flibanserin, so-called 'female Viagra,' no longer have to completely avoid alcohol but should stop drinking at least 2 hours before taking the pill at bedtime or skip the evening dose.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Physician Salaries Up in 2019, Report Shows Who Earns the Most A new Medscape report shows primary care salaries are up 21.5% since 2015 and specialists' are up 20%. This year, 74% of physicians say they perform at least 10 hours of administrative tasks a week.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Barriers of Access to Breast Reconstruction Are all breast cancer patients offered the option of breast reconstruction? What strategies may help improve access to care?
  Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, April 2019
• Prepectoral Breast Reconstruction: A Technical Algorithm In this article, the authors propose a technical algorithm to prepectoral breast reconstruction to help minimize complications and obtain optimal results.
  Plastic Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open (PRS Global Open), April 2019
• Necrotizing Soft-Tissue Infections: An Orthopaedic Emergency What are the signs and symptoms of necrotizing soft-tissue infections, and how are they best managed?
  Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, April 2019
• Let's Put Breast Implant Lymphoma Risk in Context   Dr Kathy Miller discusses the importance of placing risks in context, and questions the level of side-effect risk required for fully informed consent.
  Medscape Oncology, April 2019
• Beware Drug Interactions With Supplements Certain supplements may have serious interactions with medications. Do you know which supplements your patients are taking?
  Medscape Pharmacists, April 2019
• Scapular Free Flap in Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy Is reconstruction with a subscapular system free flap a good option for soft tissue augmentation?
  ePlasty, Open Access Journal of Plastic Surgery, April 2019
• Medical-Grade Honey as an Alternative to Surgery Is wound management with medical-grade honey a viable alternative to operative debridement?
  Wounds, April 2019
• Elite Hospitals Plunge Into Unproven Stem Cell Treatments Critics are concerned about the explosion in controversial stem cell procedures offered by clinics and, increasingly, respected hospitals.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2019
• FDA Chief Wants Release of Medical Device Data Tracking Problems Scott Gottlieb stated that it's "imperative that all safety information be available to the public." The FDA will release thousands of previously unpublished injury reports tied to medical devices.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2019
• Margin Guidelines Affect Breast-Cancer Surgical Trends Rates of breast-conserving surgery for early-stage breast cancer increased and repeat surgery decreased following dissemination of 2014 margin guidelines, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2019
• Parascapular Free Flap for Burnt Hand Find out how a thermal injury of the hand was managed with a parascapular fascial free flap and split-thickness skin graft.
  ePlasty, Open Access Journal of Plastic Surgery, April 2019
• Studies of Hyaluronic Acid in Wound Care Does a review of current literature support the use of esterified hyaluronic acid in the treatment of difficult or chronic wounds?
  Wounds, April 2019
• Alert EU Panel Backs First Gene Therapy for Beta Thalassemia Zynteglo is for patients 12 years and older who do not have a β0/β0 genotype, need regular blood transfusions to manage their disease, and have no matching donor for a stem cell transplant.
  International Approvals, March 2019