Tag: Annals of Surgery

A modest proposal: Let’s eat the trauma surgeons

Well folks, after more than two years of the pandemic, racial injustice, and medical misinformation, I have decided it is time to return to...

Adjunctive compression to standard prophylaxis for postoperative VTE shows benefit in...

Among patients with a Caprini score of ≥11 who received standard prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism (VTE), adjunctive intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) resulted in a significantly...

Ramped-up productivity incentives and a deadly down slope

The healthcare system always conducts a “root cause” analysis when a medical error occurs. It looks for a systemic problem to address in order to...

Total endovascular aortic arch treatment shows promise in dissections, but secondary...

Speaking at the Virtual Aortic Surgery How to Do It Highlights conference (Dec. 17–18), Stéphan Haulon, MD, a vascular surgeon at Hôpital Marie Lannelongue,...