David Flum
David Flum
avoid avoiding best case cause counseling easy educating greatest harm identified patients struggling surgeons
For years, surgeons have been struggling to find the best way to avoid the greatest harm in patients with incidentally identified hernias. Avoiding harm in this case is easy it can best be accomplished by counseling and educating patients and only repairing hernias that cause symptoms.
advanced age bad expect happen higher obesity patients people risk surgery
That is significantly higher than most people expect when they think of obesity surgery. Patients are at higher risk for having bad things happen after surgery because of their advanced age or other conditions.
deliver lowest operation patients places risks
If we're going to do this operation at all in patients 65 and older, it should really be done in places that can deliver the lowest risks to the patient.
major operation
This is a major operation in a high-risk population.