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Welcome to Bastion: warzone ethnography with the combat surgeons
During his first seven days in Afghanistan, Dr Mark de Rond saw 174 casualties brought into Camp Bastion’s military hospital. Six were already dead. On the living, surgeons operated for 134 hours and...
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Feminism and the limits of choice
Dr Clare Chambers argues that social pressure is behind the increasing numbers of women choosing cosmetic surgery, and the state has a duty to intervene.It is a widely held belief that freedom of...
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Brain waves could help predict how we respond to general anaesthetics
Currently, patients due to undergo surgery are given a dose of anaesthetic based on the so-called ‘Marsh model’, which uses factors such as an individual’s body weight to predict the amount of drug...
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Opinion: Scientists find way to predict who is likely to wake up during surgery
Measuring certain kinds of brain activity may help doctors track and predict how patients will react to anaesthesia before going under for surgery, our research has found.Doctors currently have no...
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Parent-led tool opens up NHS children's heart surgery data to families
Researchers are calling for the end to an era of confusion and alarm about children's heart surgery statistics by launching an innovative communication tool that will help people make sense of...
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Keeping patients safe in hospital
In November 2004, Mary McClinton was admitted to Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, USA, to receive treatment for a brain aneurysm, a potentially serious swelling in a blood vessel. What...
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Keyhole surgery more effective than open surgery for ruptured aneurysm
This is the first randomised trial comparing the use of keyhole (endovascular) aneurysm repair versus traditional open surgery to repair ruptured aneurysm, with full midterm follow-up.Abdominal aortic...
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Welcome to Bastion: warzone ethnography with the combat surgeons
During his first seven days in Afghanistan, Dr Mark de Rond saw 174 casualties brought into Camp Bastion’s military hospital. Six were already dead. On the living, surgeons operated for 134 hours and...
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Feminism and the limits of choice
Dr Clare Chambers argues that social pressure is behind the increasing numbers of women choosing cosmetic surgery, and the state has a duty to intervene.It is a widely held belief that freedom of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brain waves could help predict how we respond to general anaesthetics
Currently, patients due to undergo surgery are given a dose of anaesthetic based on the so-called ‘Marsh model’, which uses factors such as an individual’s body weight to predict the amount of drug...
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Opinion: Scientists find way to predict who is likely to wake up during surgery
Measuring certain kinds of brain activity may help doctors track and predict how patients will react to anaesthesia before going under for surgery, our research has found.Doctors currently have no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parent-led tool opens up NHS children's heart surgery data to families
Researchers are calling for the end to an era of confusion and alarm about children's heart surgery statistics by launching an innovative communication tool that will help people make sense of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keeping patients safe in hospital
In November 2004, Mary McClinton was admitted to Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, USA, to receive treatment for a brain aneurysm, a potentially serious swelling in a blood vessel. What...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keyhole surgery more effective than open surgery for ruptured aneurysm
This is the first randomised trial comparing the use of keyhole (endovascular) aneurysm repair versus traditional open surgery to repair ruptured aneurysm, with full midterm follow-up.Abdominal aortic...
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Cambridge team develops technique to ‘listen’ to a patient’s brain during...
Patients with low-grade gliomas in their brains – a slow-spreading, but potentially life-threatening tumour – will usually receive surgery to have the tumour removed. But removing brain tissue can be...
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