Periop Pulse A general surgeon has posted an opinion piece in General Surgery News that focuses on how rising physician litigation is “reshaping American health care.” Kourtney Kemp, MD, FACS, a general surgeon with Minnesota physician group Specialists in General Surgery, writes, “Healthcare costs are rising, access is shrinking, clinical complexity is increasing,…
ASCO Daily News, a publication of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), has published an article about how “evolving perioperative management” of bladder and kidney cancers is advancing genitourinary (GU) treatment. “The standard of care in bladder cancer treatment is evolving rapidly, with perioperative antibody-drug conjugates such as enfortumab…
Salisbury, Md., CBS affiliate WBOC-TV reports that a Talbot County jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a 76-year-old patient who claims a general surgeon at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center (UMSMC) in Easton, Md., failed to properly diagnose and treat his stomach issue during surgery, which led to permanent…
The Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association (RCPA), a 400-member Pennsylvania health and human services trade association, endorsed an aspect of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) fiscal year 2027 hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule. Its statement regards CMS’ proposal to expand its Comprehensive Care for Joint…
A fire at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska, delayed elective surgeries at the facility for several days. According to the hospital, the fire occurred last Thursday inside a utility closet within its surgical services unit due to a worker accidentally cutting into electrical heat tape. “A Code Red alert…
In an article titled “‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare,” the Guardian writes that “billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the ‘Uber for nursing’ industry in an effort to expand gig work in the healthcare sector.” The story focuses on a report from the…
The ever-accelerating usage of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists among the general population is impacting perioperative teams that are concerned about patient safety. Two new studies from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) researchers provide what the institution calls “important early evidence” in terms of perioperative considerations for these patients. The studies,…
The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) has published a clinical guideline that presents a comprehensive approach to perioperative risk assessment and management in patients with cirrhosis – a population that it says presents “unique surgical risks.” The guideline emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to preoperative evaluation, perioperative care, and postoperative follow-up.…
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute announced it has successfully performed Florida’s first partial heart transplant. An 11-year-old patient received an implanted “living valve” of a donor heart during a procedure the hospital said is “designed to prevent the need for future open-heart surgeries because the valve will grow with the…
The Guardian on Friday published devastating reporting about the state of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The headline: “Inside the CDC’s leadership vacuum: work at a ‘standstill’ and low morale as 80% of top posts remain vacant.” The well-sourced article describes CDC as “in a state of…
