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Implementing a system to ensure the surgical team uses the most effective practices resulted in significant improvements in operating room (OR) performance, suggests research being presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA) Practice Management 2014 meeting.
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After a patient developed a bacterial infection following arthroscopic knee surgery and sued, a California surgery center was found guilty of negligence and ordered to pay more than half a million dollars to the patient. Three other patients became infected with bacteria, but the center couldn't track which instruments were used on which patients.
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In this national cohort study, 13% of women undergoing gynecologic surgery where antibiotics were recommended received no antibiotics or the incorrect antibiotics.
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A new study shows that using cervical length as an arbiter of whom to admit for suspected preterm labor is a safe and cost-effective method to decrease health care costs.
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Compared to normal women and women with endometriosis without chronic pain, women with chronic pelvic pain demonstrate increased pain sensitivity at nonpelvic sites.
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With Congress in a seemingly perpetual state of deadlock, one of the most anticipated actions on federal reproductive health policy will instead be taken by the U.S. Supreme Court this spring.
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Early research indicates that women with moderate to severe menstrual cramps might find relief in vaginal administration of sildenafil citrate (Viagra, Pfizer), a drug commonly used for erectile dysfunction.
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No link seen between regimen use and increased sexual risk behavior
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Transdermal contraception provides a family planning option that is not dependent on daily dosing. The only transdermal contraceptive approved in the United States is the Ortho Evra patch.