Pre- and post-operative care can be especially difficult because a good healing process is dependent on understanding and cooperation from the patient. Sandra Jones, executive vice president of ASD ...
Toronto, Canada-based SeamlessMD, a company that has developed an engagement tool for surgery patients, has raised $1.1 million from BDC Capital, FundersClub and angel investors. “Surgery is one of ...
About 10 percent of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery experience sudden loss of kidney function, but giving patients aspirin or blood pressure medication before or after surgery does not reduce ...
An expert explains the recent movement towards the use of immunotherapy for patients with resectable NSCLC. The recent approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Keytruda (pembrolizumab) ...
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...
Adding Keytruda to pre-surgical chemotherapy then giving it again after surgery improved event-free survival and pathologic complete response in patients with early-stage lung cancer. Adding Keytruda ...