Five of the Most Dangerous Medical Procedures

When it comes to surgery, there are areas of the body that are more dangerous to work on than others. In addition, there are also certain procedures with a high risk of mistakes being made due to how difficult and involved they are. While all surgeries have a risk associated with them, these five are the most dangerous.

 

Separating Conjoined Twins

While twins born joined superficially can be cut apart quite easily, twins joined by the trunk, head, or other vital areas often die in the attempt. Even if the surgery does not sever any major arteries, or have other deadly complications, separating the twins’ blood supplies often causes loss of blood pressure and death.

 

Brain Surgery

The brain is not only the seat of human intellect and nearly all involuntary body systems, it is delicate, and its tissue dies when exposed to blood. To make matters even more dicey, a lot of brain surgeries involve using a bone saw to carve away at the protective skull. For these reasons, brain surgeries are among the most dangerous medical procedure available. If the surgery does not go according to plan, ramifications can include personality changes, paralysis, loss of function to any part of the body, or even death.

 

Heart Transplants

The heart pumps all of the blood through the body, so transplanting one involves slowing down the circulatory system until it has almost stopped. This involves cooling the body down until the heart rate is very slow, then routing the patient’s blood through a machine that takes the place of the heart. While great strides have been made to make this procedure safer, it is still extremely dangerous. Of course, any failure during the procedure could mean canceling before the diseased heart is removed or, tragically, the death of the patient.

 

Liver Transplants and Shunts

Due to the enormous blood volume flowing through the liver at any time, any procedure involving it is risky. Transplants and the placing of shunts are both invasive and complicated, as even the smallest misstep can cause massive internal bleeding, blood pressure complications, and death. According to a Steven W. Harris attorney, if a person suffers a lacerated liver in an accident, an accident attorney usually places great weight on that in the prosecution due to how serious any liver surgery can be.

 

Major Spinal Surgeries

While a simple disc laminectomy is done very quickly and usually without any complications, major surgeries such as rodding or decompression treatments are often risky, marathon efforts. The smallest miscalculation can lead to life-long paralysis, infections and death.

 

Many surgeries are seen as routine, but some are extremely dangerous. These five procedures carry with them huge risks for life-long complications and death.

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Terminating a Pregnancy: Three Different Procedures

Abortion is a serious sexual health concern that requires a lot of discussion. Terminating a pregnancy can have a major impact on your emotional wellness, and so it’s important to be as well-informed as you can before you make the final decision to have an abortion. With that in mind, let’s look at the different types of abortion, and how you might expect your wellbeing to be affected.

 

According to the Sinclair Intimacy Institute, ‘The clinical definition of the term “abortion” is the termination of a pregnancy, and it is an extremely common event that can occur naturally in a woman’s body before she even realises she is pregnant. Induced abortion, however, is the term to describe intentional abortion procedures. There are several different types of abortion procedures, including non-professional abortion procedures that the pregnant woman or some sother unlicensed professional attempts in order to end the pregnancy. Medical abortion can be done using established medical procedures by a trained medical practitioner, by the use of hormone combinations, or by taking a drug called RU-486.’

 

There are three types of medical abortion:

 

1. The Cannula: This is by far the most common abortion procedure. The Sinclair Intimacy Institute explain that this ‘involves insertion of a cannula through a woman’s cervix and removing the foetus and placenta using vacuum aspiration. This procedure generally is used in the first trimester (i.e., the first three months after conception) and accounts for about 90% of all medical abortions. In this procedure, which takes about 5 to 10 minutes and can be performed in a physician’s office, the woman lies on an examining table with her feet in stirrups. A local anaesthetic is administered to numb the woman’s cervix. In some cases, a general anaesthetic may be used to induce sleep, but this is usually not necessary…To insure that the abortion is complete, the physician may insert a spoon-like instrument, called a curette, and checks the walls of the uterus.’

 

2. Cannula and Forceps: About 10% of abortions are performed after the 12th week of pregnancy, which is where this procedure comes in. It’s quite similar to the procedure described above, but includes the use of forceps. This is because, after the 12^th week, the foetus is larger and more firmly attached to the uterine wall, and so needs more than suction in order to be removed. The Sinclair Intimacy Institute notes, ‘The procedure takes up to 30 minutes and may involve the administration of pain medication to the woman.’

 

3. Chemically Induced Abortion: This occurs past the twenty-second week of development, and involves chemically inducing labour so that the foetus is expelled through your vaginal opening. The Sinclair Intimacy Institute details, ‘This procedure is generally performed in a hospital. A needle is inserted through the abdominal wall into the uterus and a labour-inducing medication (such as prostaglandin, urea, or saline solution or some combination of these) is injected. Within a few hours, the woman begins labour and the foetus is expelled.’

 

However, regardless of the method you choose, you should make sure that you are checked for blood pressure and heart rate. Women who have undergone an abortion should also be monitored to insure that bleeding and discomfort are limited. After your abortion, your doctor may arrange one or more follow-up appointments for several weeks later to ensure that the procedure has been successful and that you are healthy and coping well. The Sinclair Intimacy Institute adds, ‘In abortions performed before the 13th week of pregnancy, some follow-up surgery, for example, to remove a blood clot or to repair a tear in the cervix, is needed in only 0.5% of cases.’

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Is Cosmetic Surgery the Best Way to Banish Signs of Ageing?

Growing old is inevitable. Looking old is not. Cosmetic surgery that lifts sagging and tightens sagging skin is increasingly popular and affordable.

There are many reasons why people choose to have a facelift. Obviously vanity does play a part – it can be hard to adjust to seeing those crow’s feet and fine lines increasing every time you look in the mirror and if you can do something about it, a little procedure is perfectly acceptable. Others might consider a facelift for a specific skin issue, such as sagging eyelids or wobbling jowls.

The reality is that as we age, our skin loses its elasticity because it no longer produces the collagen that’s crucial for keeping skin plump and youthful in the same quantities. As the skin inevitably sags, our features begin to wrinkle and droop.

A facelift can offer a little help to slow the passage of time, restore your confidence and rejuvenate the one part of your body everyone can see at all times.

There are several different procedures you choose from. A lower facelift is used to tighten up the neck and jowls. A mid facelift smooths out the cheeks and lower eyelids. A thread facelift deals with facial sagging, smoothing the neck, jawline and cheeks. And a mini facelift will focus on certain areas, such as the neck, nose or around the eyes.

If you are uncomfortable with the idea of going under the knife for a facelift, there are non-surgical, non-invasive alternatives to consider. Microdermabrasion is one of them, a deep exfoliation that refines the skin with special medical grade polished crystals. These help speed up the process of collagen production and also reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

A chemical peel is another possibility. A chemical solution is applied to the skin, causing it to “blister” and peel way to reveal smoother and less wrinkled skin underneath.

Whatever kind of procedure you do plump for, make sure you do as much research as possible into the effects of the surgery or non-invasive alternative before committing to anything.

Is Cosmetic Surgery the Best Way to Banish Signs of Ageing?

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