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See how Botox is easing the pain of Raynaud’s phenomenon

The Stitch

Baylor Medicine plastic hand surgeon Dr. Christine Yin says patients are finding relief from Raynauds symptoms through a Botox treatment. The post See how Botox is easing the pain of Raynaud’s phenomenon appeared first on Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network.

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How AI Is Enhancing Surgical Safety and Education

NVIDIA: Healthcare

Troves of unwatched surgical video footage are finding new life, fueling AI tools that help make surgery safer and enhance surgical education. The Surgical Data Science Collective (SDSC) is transforming global surgery through AI-driven video analysis, helping to close the gaps in surgical training and practice. In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Margaux Masson-Forsythe, director of machine learning at SDSC, discusses the unique challenges of doing AI research as a nonprofit, how the colle

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The Surprising Truth About the Top Factors Influencing Patient Safety in the Cardiac OR

SpecialtyCare

Its not a shock that surgery on the heart and pericardium logs the highest rate of adverse events (556.7 events out of every 1,000, according to Patient Safety in Surgery study of over 80,000 surgical hospitalizations) but what may be most surprising is that majority of the top factors influencing patient safety are not technological or circumstantial theyre interpersonal.

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