The top 5 failures to disclose risk at informed consent
In most countries, doctors have a duty to explain the possibility of surgical risks and possible complications before surgery to patients.
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Tagged Audit, Checklist, complaints, Patient experience, SurgicalPerformance; Posted 11 years ago
Mirena for Lynch patients?
In gynaecology we moved from major surgery through laparotomy, to laparoscopic surgery to single incision surgery and finally to non-surgical treatment of endometrial pathology within the last 10 years.
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Tagged Mirena, lynch, breast cancer; Comments 3 ; Posted 11 years ago
Preperitoneal wound infusion
I realise that in general gynaecology we hardly need to do laparotomies any more except for very big and complex cases.
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Tagged Analgesia, epidural, preperitoneal catheters; Posted 11 years ago
Haemostatic agents (Floseal, Surgiflo)
I have been asked to describe in what areas patients benefit from haemostatic agents. Haemostatic agents include Floseal, Surgiflo, Tisseel, Surgicel, Fibrillar or Surgicel Snow, only to name the most...
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Tagged bleeding, haemostatic agents; Comments 3 ; Posted 11 years ago
HE4 in ovarian and uterine cancer
A couple of years we introduced HE4 as a tumour marker for pelvic masses. The idea was to differentiate benign ovarian masses from ovarian cancer in patients without ascites or...
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Tagged HE4, Ovarian Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Mirena, Metformin; Posted 11 years ago
Port Placement
A while ago we produced a teaching video that is used by Lina, the company that markets the McCartney tube for laparoscopic hysterectomy.
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Tagged laparoscopy, port placement, Training; Comments 2 ; Posted 11 years ago
Bowel & Bladder injury
A couple of months ago, I attended an AGES conference on surgical disasters. I am interested in surgical complications professionally and academically. The majority of participants were general gynaecologists.
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Tagged Complications, bowel injury, bladder injury, ureteric injury; Comments 4 ; Posted 11 years ago
Few doctors account for the majority of patient complaints
To many doctors, to receive a notice of a patient complaint seems random.
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Tagged Audit, Complications, complaints, Patient experience, RANZCOG, SurgicalPerformance; Posted 11 years ago
Australia’s wasteful research grant system
Medical researchers in Australia spent 511 person years (one person working for more than 5 centuries!) worth of time preparing research-grant proposals for consideration for funding by the National Health...
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Tagged Research, Cherish Foundation, Charity; Posted 11 years ago
Salpingectomy to reduce "ovarian cancer" risk
A few weeks ago we discussed the role of salpingectomy (without removing the ovaries) to prevent ovarian cancer. We agreed that …
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Tagged Salpingectomy, Ovarian Cancer, BRCA, Prophylactic; Posted 11 years ago
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