Day Surgery for Internal Hemorrhoid at an Outpatient Clinic

Internal Hemorrhoid Non Surgical Treatment GI Clinic North Houston

An Outbreak of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis at an Outpatient Ophthalmology Clinic

Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) is an acute eye infection caused by adenovirus. We investigated an outbreak of EKC at an outpatient ophthalmology practice in the context of a suspected community wide increase in EKC activity. A site visit was made to the facility reporting the outbreak. A line list was created of patients clinically diagnosed with EKC at the practice during the previous 5 m...

Complications of hemorrhoid surgery

Symptomatic hemorrhoids require a number of therap complications. Office-based therapy such as rubber ban which are self-limited, but also carries the risk of rare c threatening. Operative treatment of hemorrhoids inclu hemorrhoidectomy, and the use of energy devices. Comp self-limited. Late complications such as stenosis and fe related to the initial grade and therapeutic approach. T individua...

Cholelithiasis in obese adolescents treated at an outpatient clinic.

OBJECTIVE to describe the frequency and the factors associated with cholelithiasis in obese adolescents. METHODS this was a cross-sectional descriptive study performed with the adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age treated at the Child and Adolescent Obesity Outpatient Clinic from May to December of 2011. Obesity was defined as body mass index (BMI)>P97, and overweight as BMI>P85, for ag...

Animal-assisted therapy at an outpatient pain management clinic.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of brief therapy dog visits to an outpatient pain management facility compared with time spent in a waiting room. DESIGN The design of this study is open-label. Setting.  This study was conducted in a university tertiary care adult chronic pain outpatient clinic. SUBJECTS The subjects of this study include outpatients, adults...