Overseeing cosmetic surgery
Cosmetic surgery is booming, but the regulation surrounding who can perform cosmetic procedures with what level of expertise and training, is totally inadequate. The fact remains...
Surgery
The Surgery section showcases a range of topics centered on surgical techniques, innovations, and best practices. The section highlights groundbreaking advancements such as bionic limb research, major clinical trials in kidney transplant practice, and developing surgical simulation technologies. Additionally, it addresses the social and educational aspects of surgery, like training doctors in challenging environments and discussing the legalities of cosmetic surgery negligence.
Europe’s oldest operating theatre
A massive leap forward in medical technology took place in the mid 20th century. The most significant change in the UK, after World War Two,...
Lower GDP means poorer surgical outcomes
Results of our new research, a collaboration between our team of scientists at the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham and Edinburgh, has shown that patients undergoing...
Intensive care’s intensive noise problem
I remember very clearly the first time I walked onto the intensive care unit (ICU). The first thing that struck me was that so many...
Patient outcomes
Outcomes data is information about the results of surgery that can be published and used by surgeons, patients and hospitals to ultimately improve safety and...
Lies, damned lies and surgical league tables
My heart sank when Health minister Jeremy Hunt announced that league tables for surgeons would be published back in 2014. As a consultant surgeon at...
Acid attacks – A challenge for reconstructive surgeons
Following a spate of drive by acid attacks on men in East London, there are calls for tighter laws to penalise those people who use...
Through the keyhole – improving surgical skills
One of the biggest challenges facing us in modern surgery is how to take tomorrow's surgeons from relative novices to the expert that you and...
Telementoring in surgery is a global revolution
MATTU, the UK’s first International Centre of Telemedicine based at Surrey University and the Royal Surrey County Hospital, has telementoring facilities that links to hospitals...
Depth perception in key-hole surgery
When Phillipe Bozzini first designed and used his Lichtleiter in 1803 to peer into the human body, the medical world unwittingly became reliant on observing...
