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Welcome to the latest edition of SurgeXperiences, the fortnightly carnival of blog posts related to surgery.
This happens to be the 50th edition. Ironically the number 50 has acquired an altogether unwelcome significance this week due to the unfortunate and untimely death of Michael Jackson aged 50. Mr. Jackson may very well be the King of [...]

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The next edition
SurgeXperiences 226
which happens to the the 50th edition
will be hosted by me in this blog on June 28, 2009.
Deadline for submissions is midnight on Friday, June 26. Suggested theme is surgical practices in different parts of the world.
Please send in your submissions early via this form.
SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. [...]

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via Buckeye Surgeon: Traumatic Cervical Spine Injury: Is CT now the preferred imaging modality?.

Over 1500 patients were accrued. Radiographic evidence of cervical spine injury was detected in 78 of the patients, with 50 having clinically significant injuries. Here’s where it gets good. CT scan of the cervical spine detected all 50 injuries (100% sensitivity) while [...]

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via medGadget - Artificial Heart Inspired by a Cockroach and built like an Onion & The Telegraph -  An Indian artificial heart.

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Finally, there could be an artificial heart with a Made-in-India tag. Nearly 40 years after the West invented a crude, pneumatic-powered device that could pump blood quite like a normal heart, Indian biomedical [...]

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I was called to do an urgent bedside ultrasound scan of the abdomen for a trauma victim.
The patient was a young man of twenty-four who had been involved in a road traffic accident (RTA = MVA in US medical terminology). He had been brought - without any kind of basic life support - after sustaining [...]

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The latest edition is up in Q & A format at Vagus Surgicalis, by Jeffrey Leow.
SurgeXperiences 225 ⪻ Vagus Surgicalis.

Welcome to the 25th edition of SurgeXperiences – the one and only Surgical “Grand Rounds”, where the best surgical-related posts are gathered into one succinct post every 2 weeks. Thank you for dropping by, and because [...]

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Note: This is the third (and final) case in a short series of CT images of extra-axial intracranial hemorrhages.
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Diagnosis: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) implies the presence of blood within the subarachnoid space from some pathologic process. SAH causes approximately 5% of all “strokes.” The common medical use of the term SAH refers to the [...]

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55-year-old man with swelling in the right groin.
Ultrasonography was done.
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What is the diagnosis?
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Answer: Here.
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