Healthcare staff need to work together for the early identification and management of perioperative anemia to anticipate problems and ensure optimal outcomes, say new UK guidelines.
Women who are operated on by a male surgeon are much more likely to die, experience complications and be readmitted to hospital than when a woman performs the procedure, research reveals.
Women are 15 percent more liable to suffer a bad outcome, and 32 percent more likely to die, when a man rather than a woman carries out the surgery, according to a study of 1.3 million patients.
The findings have sparked a debate about the fact that surgery in the UK remains a hugely male-dominated area of medicine and claims that “implicit sex biases” among male surgeons may help explain why
A recent study published to the medical journal JAMA Surgery indicates that when women are operated on by male surgeons, compared with female surgeons, t