Blog Topic: Surgery

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  One Patient’s Needs Sparks New Surgical Protocol

  March 05, 2018

  Ever wonder what you might do if you found yourself diagnosed with a disease and your doctors didn’t have a process in place to fully treat it? Ever think about what happens behind the scenes in a hospital to prepare for a new surgical procedure?

  Surgery
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  Tissue Engineering to Improve the Most Common Orthopaedic Surgery

  January 15, 2018

  The knee carries a lot of weight in the English language, just as it does in the body. As the largest and one of the most complicated joints, the knee is also one of the most easily injured. Anatomically, it’s no wonder – the knee connects the two longest levers in the body: the thigh and lower leg.

  Orthopaedics Surgery
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  Cosmetic Surgery: Is There Still a Stigma for Men?

  November 29, 2017

  A look through the American Association of Plastic Surgery’s annual report shows doctors performed more than 17.1 million cosmetic procedures in 2016, but buried in the report is something you might not expect. Despite the public perception that these procedures are predominantly focused on women, a growing number of cosmetic plastic surgery patients are men.

  Surgery Mens Health
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  Cut and Dry Insights to Prevent Surgical Site Infections

  August 23, 2017

  In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published guidelines on surgical site infection prevention. The update to that guideline began over five years ago, but Ebola, Zika and other national and international healthcare emergencies delayed its completion. The news blog checked in with Penn Medicine's Craig Umscheid to see what the major takeaways are from this guideline and how it can improve the safety of surgical procedures.

  Infectious Disease Surgery
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  Life Inside the OR: An Outsider’s Perspective

  July 28, 2017

  When I started my career seven years ago, it hadn’t crossed my mind that at some point I would spend nearly 12 hours – overnight hours, to be exact – inside an operating room for anything other than a potential surgery of my own. That is, until I had the opportunity to don paper scrubs, a facemask and hair net, and observe a life-changing procedure –with a film crew in tow.

  Surgery Transplant Orthopaedics
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  “So, a Surgeon Walks Into a Zoo…” – A Wild Delivery Story That’s No Joke

  July 05, 2017

  On Friday, June 2, an unlikely group of local medical professionals assembled Avengers-style at the Philadelphia Zoo to bring its newest addition into the world: a five pound baby western lowland gorilla. On the scene with the multidisciplinary group was Sean P. Harbison, MD, chief of General Surgery at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

  General Interest Community Surgery
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  #ILookLikeASurgeon and the Push for Gender Equity in Surgery

  May 26, 2017

  What women experience when working as surgeons is different from what male surgeons experience — not necessarily in the specific acts of wielding a scalpel and other instruments, but in virtually every other area of their working lives. Over the past year, female surgeons across the country and world have reinvigorated a push toward visibility and toward changes to empower equitable success for women in a persistently male-dominated field.

  Surgery Diversity
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  The Three Careers of Kelly Parsons

  May 24, 2017

  Surgeon, professor, novelist: It’s a lofty trio of career choices, each particularly demanding in its own way. Certain pairings among the three do fit together rather well — plenty of professors have written a novel or two, and certainly plenty of surgeons are also professors — but it’s a rare individual that looks at those three choices and says, “Yeah, sure, I’ll take ‘em all.”

  Education Surgery General Interest
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  A Matter of Facts

  April 12, 2017

  The 2017 edition of Penn Medicine's Facts & Figures is now available. Facts & Figures is a pocket-sized publication that keeps faculty, students, staff, the media, government officials, and others, informed about the latest expansion projects, rankings, at-a-glance statistics, and much more.

  General Interest Global Medicine International Education Education Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Patient Care Penn Medicine Cherry Hill Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Pennsylvania Hospital Transplant Translational Research Surgery Research
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  10 minutes. 22 people. 54 percent.

  April 07, 2017

  One single person can potentially save the lives of more than eight others, if they are an organ donor. And if someone is also a tissue donor, they can save or change the lives of nearly 75 people. But, according to Donate Life America, while 95 percent of U.S. adults support organ donation, only 54 percent are actual registered donors.

  Transplant Surgery