Western Australia- Hospitals

Hospital ponders cutting fat

Canberra Hospital is considering offering weightloss surgery such as gastric banding for the first time in response to the ACTs growing levels of obesity The hospital has formed an obesity network of clinicians working with obese patients and researchers investigating the condition from the Australian National University and University of Canberra... Read More

Not all ICUs need a specialist at night study

The results published in the New England Journal of Medicine counter an argument from some in the medical community that ICUs need roundtheclock intensivists doctors who specialize in critical care quotOur knee jerk reaction is to try to put intensivists in every ICU at all hours of the day and that reaction is likely a misstep because it overs... Read More