Background: Transvaginal mesh (TVM) surgeries emerged as an innovative treatment for stress urine incontinency and/or pelvic organ prolapse in 1996. Years after rapid adoption of these surgeries into practice, they are a key example of worldwide failure of healthcare quality and patient safety. The prevalence of TVM-associated harms eventually prompted action globally, including an Australian Commonwealth Government Senate Inquiry in 2017. Method: We analysed 425 submissions made by women (n = 417) and their advocates (n = 8) to the Australian Senate Inquiry, and documents from 5 public hearings, using deductive and inductive coding, categorisation and thematic analysis informed by three ‘linked dilemmas’ from healthcare quality and safety theory. We focused on women’s accounts of: a) how harms arose from TVM procedures, and b) micro, meso and macro factors that contributed to their experience. Our aim was to explain, from a patient perspective, how these harms persisted in Austr
An innovative metabolic surgery, known as Ileal transposition, has improved the health of patients with diabetes in Mexico, where this disease is an epidemic that causes more than 115,000 deaths annually, the second cause of death.
Guwahati, June 11: Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria released the first issue of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic and Innovative Surgery in Guwahati on Sunday. The journal is an official publication of the Association of Robotic and Innovative Surgeons.