by Lasse Bremholm, Head of Endoscopy, MD, Senior Consultant, PhD, Associate ProfessorFor years, the trend on improving the quality of endoscopy has been the launch of new models where the aim was: thinner and better looking.These developments have given us scopes with an increasingly smaller diameter, thereby giving easier access and better patient satisfaction.The image…
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High risk emergency surgery, to whom it may concern.
by Rune Trangbæk, PhD student, M.D.In abdominal surgery, when emergency and high risk is combined, it should concern everyone.From hospital entry through surgery and all the way to the discharge patient undergoing emergency surgery may come across the board of numerous medical specialties.The first one to see and identify the surgical patient could be anyone,…
read moreThe perioperative phase: A golden opportunity to improve surgical oncological outcomes.
by Ismail Gögenur, Professor, DMScThrough decades we have realized that surgery is the main stay of treatment in patients with solid cancers. This has been the reality since the introduction of surgery for cancer in the late 18th century. From the beginning of these days and until now in 2019 we still live with the…
read moreThe role of anesthesia in cancer surgery – a potential quantum leap forward for optimized surgical cancer management.
by Rune Petring Hasselager, PhD student, M.D.Anesthesia and surgery are fundamental in curable cancer treatment. More than 80% of cancer patients are estimated to benefit from surgery. Since the mid-19th century, when general anesthesia was introduced, surgery has evolved from being a last resort to becoming a strategic, minimally invasive procedure. Additionally, criteria for surgical…
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