Trends in Inpatient Urological Surgery Practice Patterns

New trends in minimally invasive urological surgery.

PURPOSE The perceived benefits of minimally-invasive surgery include less postoperative pain, shorter hospitalization, reduced morbidity and better cosmesis while maintaining diagnostic accuracy and therapeutic outcome. We review the new trends in minimally-invasive urological surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the English language literature using the National Library of Medicine dat...

National Trends in the Use of Inpatient Hospitalization for Combined Abdominoplasty and Breast Surgery

BACKGROUND Combined procedures involving elective breast surgery at the time of abdominoplasty are frequently performed procedures in aesthetic plastic surgery. While found to be safe outpatient procedures, many surgeons elect to perform combined abdominoplasty/breast surgery as inpatient surgery. This study was performed to explore the practice of performing the combined procedure as an inpat...

Urological surgery in the time of coronavirus pandemic

The current coronavirus pandemic forces us to realize the significance of the careful utilization of financial and health-care resources. At the same time, it is important to ensure the ability of urologists to function through this crisis to provide essential and emergency services. With regards to urological procedures, a triage of non-emergent operations is hence recommended considering vari...

Polyurethane in Urological Practice

Urological diagnosis in general practice.

The great increase in medical knowledge of recent years has tended more and more to produce specialisation. This obviously has its advantages, since, other things being equal, a doctor who confines himself to one system or segment of the body, should know more about this particular part than the man who has to devote his time to general medicine. It does, however, throw a greater onus on the ge...