BACKGROUND: The creation of surgical skin incisions has historically been performed
using a cold scalpel. The use of electrocautery for this purpose has been controversial with …

Background Controversy exists about whether cutting diathermy for skin incisions leads to a
cosmetically inferior scar. Cosmetic outcomes were compared between skin incisions …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there has been an improvement in short-
and long-term clinical outcomes since 2010, when the Ontario Bariatric Network led a …

Increasing severity of obesity is associated with high surgical morbidity and increasing rates
of 30-day readmissions. A minimal preoperative weight loss of 10% of total body weight is …

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) is a well established standard of care in
the treatment of obesity and its associated comorbidities. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (…

… As Aird has concluded in his study of two Muslim villages on the outskirts of Dacca, 'family
structure has shown considerable resistance to the forces of social change brought about by …

… Furthermore, the finding that there was no difference in the wound healing and wound
infection was in consistency with the Aird study (Aird et al. 2015); their study compared both …

AbstractBackground: Scalpel incisions cause low injury to surrounding tissues. Electrosurgery
has been used extensivelyfor hemostasis, but the risk of producing huge scars andpoor …

… and was greater with transmural aird first infarcts. Clinically diagnosed extension manifested
by new pain, ST segment elevation, rise in serum creatine kinase level and increased …

Introduction Electrocautery is used widely in surgical procedures, but making skin incision
has routinely been performed with scalpel rather than electrocautery, for fear that …