For the inexperienced individual, learning surgical techniques can be taxing. The authors developed a rodent surgery dry lab training program to assist educational and research institutions in ...

Medical errors can have devastating consequences for patients, and one of the most alarming errors is the retention of surgical items in a patient’s body after surgery. Retained surgical items (RSIs) ...

Having the right surgical tools on hand can mean the difference between a routine extraction and a complicated procedure. As a health care professional or decision-maker, knowing the top surgical ...

WELSH hospitals are spending millions of pounds on surgical instruments made by children in the Third World working in appalling conditions, according to a report by the British Medical Association.

As the Fair Trade campaign is helping to improve working conditions and practices across the global food and textile industry, attention is now being turned to the way surgical instruments are ...