Ethics of Surgical Complications

Surgical Complications of Cochlear Implantation

Cochlear implantation is a method used for the treatment of patients with profound hearing loss. This procedure may the accompanied by some major or minor complications. We evaluated the surgical complications of cochlear implantation in Fars province (south of Iran). A total of 150 patients with cochlear implantation were enrolled in the present study. Most of the patients were pre-lingual chi...

Surgical ethics: surgical virtue and more.

The encounter between a patient and her surgeon is unique for several reasons. The surgeon inflicts pain upon a patient for the patient's own good. An operative intervention is irreducibly personal, such that the decisions about and performance of operations are inseparable from the idiosyncrasies of the individual surgeon. Furthermore, there is a chasm of knowledge between the patient and surg...

Complications of Surgical Management

To determine the relative risk of complications in treating ankle fractures in patients with diabetes, we compared the results of the management of displaced malleolar fractures in 26 patients with those of a matched group of non-diabetic patients, using a case-controlled study. The groups were matched for patient age, fracture type and treating surgeon. The incidence of significant complicatio...

Surgical Complications of Filariasis

Surgical Complications of Filariasis

Sir,?The article on filariasis by Dr. P. N. Ray, in the April number of the Indian Medical Gazette, has just come to my attention and I have read it with a great deal of interest. In addition to the drugs Mentioned there for the treatment of this disease I Would like to suggest one more which we have used at this hospital for a number of years with considerable benefit to the patients, namely, ...