surgery

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Cycling helmet lying on the floor by a crashed bicycle

International study recommends replacing skull section after treatment for a brain bleed

23 Apr 2023

A major international trial has concluded that, where possible, surgeons should replace the removed section of the skull following surgery to treat a...

Cambridge researchers change donor kidney blood type

15 Aug 2022

Researchers have been able to alter the blood type of deceased donor kidneys using “molecular scissors”.

Heart surgery delays will cost lives, warns research

17 Jun 2022

Pandemic has delayed lifesaving treatment for thousands of people with severe aortic stenosis.

Cambridge team develops technique to ‘listen’ to a patient’s brain during tumour surgery

16 Oct 2018

Surgeons could soon eavesdrop on a patient’s brain activity during surgery to remove their brain tumour, helping improve the accuracy of the...

Keyhole surgery more effective than open surgery for ruptured aneurysm

15 Nov 2017

The use of keyhole surgery to repair ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is both clinically and cost effective and should be adopted more widely...

Intravenous drip, Credit: Toshiyuki Imai

Keeping patients safe in hospital

15 Nov 2016

Healthcare is a complex beast and too often problems arise that can put patients’ health – and in some cases, lives – at risk. A collaboration...

Parent-led tool opens up NHS children's heart surgery data to families

21 Jun 2016

Transparency without accessibility is not enough: stats must be put in context, say researchers.

Opinion: Scientists find way to predict who is likely to wake up during surgery

22 Jan 2016

Srivas Chennu (Department of Clinical Neurosciences) discusses how doctors could use brain waves to help predict how patients will respond to general...

Brain networks during the transition to unconsciousness during propofol sedation

Brain waves could help predict how we respond to general anaesthetics

14 Jan 2016

The complex pattern of ‘chatter’ between different areas of an individual’s brain while they are awake could help doctors better track and even...

Surgeons in the field hospital in Camp Bastion

Welcome to Bastion: warzone ethnography with the combat surgeons

27 Jun 2012

A Cambridge academic was given unprecedented access to the military hospital at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, to study the teamwork of the combat...