A surgical robot has helped a team at Maidstone Hospital carry out a record number of gallbladder operations in a single day.

The “a-ha” moment of robotic surgery lies in translating its benefits. For the surgeon, it’s a tool designed to support greater surgical precision. For the patient, it means a potentially more ...

Surgeons at King’s College Hospital have performed 1,000 cases of surgery assisted by robots throughout the last two years. King’s ...

Oliver Rogers, president of hospital-based services, and Jeff Wood, vice president of hospital-based services at TeamHealth, explain how integrating anesthesia, emergency medicine and hospital ...

Brent Lambert, MD, is the principle and founder of physician-owned ambulatory surgery center development company Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America in Hanover, Mass. Here are Dr. Lambert’s eight ...

Two new studies published in Anaesthesia analyzing pain and other factors connected with day surgery in the UK show that ...

A study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine examines the causes and risk factors for failed hip preservation surgery. The study authors examined 147 patients who underwent previous ...

A Peoria woman received a $15,000 surprise medical bill after her insurance company’s contract with a Valley hospital expired ...

The review pulled together UK based reports of complications linked to elective surgery carried out overseas, focusing on what happened when people returned and needed NHS care. Most cases involved ...

Heart surgery beginning in the late morning is linked to a modest increase in cardiovascular mortality when compared to other ...