Telesurgery (operating on a patient remotely using a surgical robot via a secure telecommunication link) appears to be as ...

About 1 in 1,111 patients who undergo urologic surgery for conditions such as prostate cancer and kidney stones experience opioid dependence or overdose (ODO), a Loyola Medicine study has found.

Recently, a shift from inpatient to outpatient surgery in the United States for commonly performed urologic procedures has coincided with increasing deaths, according to a study published in BJU ...

Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health have performed the world's first-in-human bladder transplant. The surgery was successfully completed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on May 4, ...

In general, prophylaxis for urologic surgery should be discontinued within 24 hours, and in many cases, a single dose is appropriate. Although common practice has been to administer agents longer when ...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center recently became one of only a few centers in the Pacific Northwest to acquire the da Vinci single-port robotic surgical system. Adding this new technology to its fleet of ...

Thomas Chi, M.D., MBA, professor and chair of the UAB Department of Urology, has been named named Anton J. Bueschen, M.D., Endowed Chair of Urologic Surgery and Research. “I am honored to follow in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Albany Medical Center urologists published a study that concluded patients who had received major abdominal/pelvic surgery rarely needed prescription opioids for pain after ...

!–paging_filter–pUrologists diagnose and treat disorders of the urinary tract, prostate and bladder, such as urinary tract infections, prostate cancer and incontinence./p pstrongEmily B. Bradley, M.D.

Here are 22 interesting statistics about urology in surgery centers. 1. Urology was represented in 23 percent of all ASCs in 2008. 2. Urology ranked fourth among specialties in average number of ...

Dr. Wallis is a Clinical Professor of Surgery in the Division of Urology at the University of Utah and Chief of Pediatric Urology at Primary Children’s Hospital. He is a board certified pediatric ...

Periprocedural infections are an important health care concern. Surgical-site infections occur after 5% of clean extra-abdominal procedures and are even more frequent after intra-abdominal operations.