'Ventilation outage' delays surgeries at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital

RSS

Chicago Tribune, August 11, 2009

Scores of surgeries were delayed or rescheduled at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after a fan malfunctioned in the operating room suites. Emergency and "essential" surgeries continued to be performed, but an unspecified number of elective or non-urgent procedures scheduled have had to be moved. The kinds of procedures that can wait would include hip or knee replacements or plastic surgery, hospital officials said.

Full Story

J&J recalls hip replacement implant

More than two years after the Food and Drug Administration began receiving complaints about the failure of a hip replacement implant made by the DePuy Orthopaedics unit of Johnson & Johnson, the...

Surgeons salvage hand nerves of double-transplant patient at Jewish Hospital

--> Doctors completed the region's first double-hand transplant Wednesday, replacing a man's burned, non-functional hands with two new ones. “It looks very good at this point,” Dr. Joseph E...

Less invasive hip surgeries make inroads

Robert Berghoff, MD, his colleagues at Arizona Orthopedic Associates in Phoenix, and other orthopedic surgeons around the country have strived for improvements to hip replacement surgery, especially with...

Book: The Healthcare Executive's Guide to Urgent Care Centers and Freestanding EDs

One in five Americans lacks adequate access to primary care physicians and even those patients with insurance and a primary care doctor can struggle to get same-day appointments, leaving...

go to complete list