Bariatric surgery is an option for people who are severely overweight to lose extra pounds and improve associated conditions such as diabetes. However, it’s not an easy way out, and it requires a big ...

The study covered in this summary was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. In recent years, prehabilitation programs have gained traction as a strategy to ...

Angel Luk, RD, Registered Dietician, talks about how important it is for patients to follow the pre-operative diet before having bariatric surgery. Taiwan won't take reciprocal tariffs against US, ...

Multimodel analgesic therapy is important during preoperative visits of minimally invasive spine surgery patients, according to a review of methods published in the Dec. 15 issue of Spine. Researchers ...

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 ...

Medtech company Smith+Nephew has launched its CORIOGRAPH pre-op planning and modeling services for total shoulder arthroplasty in the U.S. The software has image-based planning capabilities to allow ...