American College of Surgery Clinical Congress 1999

The Meds.com meeting report presents succinct analysis of key presentations at the 1999 American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress on new surgical techniques, approaches to cancer surgery, and other issues in surgery.

• Fast Tracking Surgical Management Improves Patient Outcomes and Reduces Hospital Length of Stay
• Computer-Interfaced Microsurgical Robots May Make Minimal Invasive Endoscopy a Reality For Cardiac Surgery
• Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Treats the Hypermetabolic Response to Burn Injury
• New Concepts May Help in the Management of Breast Cancer
• Virtual Reality Is Transforming the Teaching of Surgical Skills
• Clinical Uses of Blood Substitutes in Surgery
• How to Protect Surgeons and Patients from Transmission of Blood-Borne Diseases
• Arterioventricular Carbon Dioxide Removal as a Treatment for Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
• Ethics Debate: Should the Families of Patients Who Have Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer be Informed?
• Skin Substitutes Fail to Make the Grade
• When to Consider Genetic Testing for Hereditary Colon Cancer
• Surgical Issues in the Elderly
• Achieving Better Outpatient Pain Management
• Forum Series: Advances in Surgical Oncology Research
• Positive Outcome Predictors for Antireflux Surgery
• Prophylactic Mastectomy on Demand?
• Regional Node Management in Gastrointestinal Cancer and Breast Cancer
• Red Cell Substitutes Enter Phase III Trials
• Surgical CME Sites on the Internet