General Surgery News

• Residents Demand Changes in Advance of Second Wave of COVID-19 In Brooklyn, Brookdale Hospital residents staged a 'unity break' to protest the lack of their involvement in decision making and call for changes to hospital protocols.
  Medscape Medical News, June 05, 2020
• A Company That Promised to Help a Failing Hospital Only Made It Worse Vulnerable rural Oklahoma hospitals have handed the reins to management companies that say they're turnaround experts. But some firms failed the hospitals, bled them dry, and expedited their demise.
  ProPublica, June 04, 2020
• Police Arrest, Allegedly Target Medics at Twin Cities Protests Police shot rubber bullets into a medic station in Minneapolis and arrested volunteers providing first aid in St. Paul.
  Medscape Medical News, June 04, 2020
• Increased Risk for Invasive Breast Cancer After DCIS A new analysis shows that any diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ is associated with a long-term risk of invasive breast cancer and that treatment lowers this risk.
  Medscape Medical News, June 04, 2020
• ASCO 2020Secondary Surgery Extends OS in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer In a phase 3 trial, combining cytoreductive surgery with chemotherapy significantly prolonged progression-free and overall survival among select patients with recurrent ovarian cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, June 04, 2020
• ASCO 2020A Bumpy Virtual #ASCO20; Returning to Chicago in 2021? The world's largest oncology meeting went online to mixed reviews. Doubts and hopes coexist about an in-person meeting next year.
  Medscape Medical News, June 04, 2020
• Global COVID-19 Pandemic Could Lead to 28 Million Surgeries Canceled Worldwide An estimated 28.4 million elective surgeries worldwide will be cancelled during the 12 weeks of peak disruption due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2020
• The Push-Pull of Industry in Interventional Cardiovascular Trials While industry dollars are needed to push research forward, patients going into studies, often risking their lives, would be 'horrified' that people are spinning the results, one expert says.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2020
• MELD Score Disadvantages Women on the Liver Transplant Waiting List The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) organ allocation system has led to sex disparities, with women less likely to receive a deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT) and more likely to die on the waiting list, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, May 28, 2020
• COVID-19: Where Doctors Can Get Help for Emotional Distress Many physicians say the traumatic experiences of being on the front line leave them mentally exhausted, guilt-ridden, and depressed. Here's where to find resources to help your mental health at this time.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020
• ASCO 2020PPI Added to Chemo Improves Breast Tumor Response Rate When added to standard chemo, a generic drug for reflux demonstrated a higher-than-expected rate of pathologic complete response in triple negative breast cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, May 29, 2020
• ASCO 2020Adjuvant Osimertinib Extends DFS in Localized NSCLC Adjuvant therapy with osimertinib yielded a nearly 80% reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death in patients with stage IB-IIIA non–small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutations in the ADAURA trial.
  Medscape Medical News, May 29, 2020
• Moderate Weight Loss Before Bariatric Surgery Tied to Lower Postop Mortality People who lose even a modest amount of weight prior to bariatric surgery may have a lower risk of dying within 30 days after surgery, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 28, 2020
• Alert Class I Recall for Medtronic’s HeartWare HVAD Pump Parts The recall is because of the possibility of the pump outflow graft tearing and the strain relief screw breaking during pre-implant assembly.
  News Alerts, May 28, 2020
• Pandemic-Induced Surgery Delays Could Worsen Cancer Survival Delays in cancer surgery related to the COVID-19 pandemic could substantially worsen survival outcomes, according to a model study.
  Reuters Health Information, May 27, 2020
• Research Finds Concerning Drop in US Colorectal Cancer Screenings and Surgeries New diagnoses of one of the deadliest cancers fell by one-third in March and April as US physicians and patients halted appointments and screenings during the COVID-19 outbreak.
  Reuters Health Information, May 27, 2020
• Should Patients Be Required to Wear Masks at Hospitals During COVID-19 Pandemic? As hospitals reopen, they should consider mandating patients to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, two doctors say.
  Reuters Health Information, May 22, 2020
• Nurses Disciplined, Fired for Wearing Hospital-Issued Scrubs At a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, nurses allege they were retaliated against for speaking out about safety concerns, including inadequate PPE.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2020
• Healthcare Workers May Be at Risk Early in COVID-19 Outbreak In the early stages of a COVID-19 outbreak, healthcare workers may not recognize that patients have the disease, which can put them at risk, new data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• Primary Cardiac Tumors: A Clarion Call for Cardio-Oncology New data confirm the rarity and lethality of these tumors, yet patients are often diagnosed after surgery and only then referred to an oncologist.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020