FRIDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Surgery may provide only short-term relief for some children with sleep-disordered breathing, say researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

By Amanda Gardner
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- A much-touted technology designed to detect when patients are regaining consciousness while under anesthesia during surgery doesn't appear to work any better than standard methods.

Bispectral index (BIS) monitoring did not lower the incidence of "anesthesia awareness" in a large sample of patients, concluded a study from Washington University researchers that is published in the March 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

MONDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- Arthroscopic surgery for first-time shoulder dislocation provides long-term benefits for young, athletic patients, according to a U.S. study.

Providing a surgeon’s e-mail address nearly triples the likelihood that a patient will contact the doctor about the surgery, a new report shows. But is this a good idea? Does answering e-mails keep doctors from attending to patients in their offices? Or is this the next stage of communication in healthcare?

THURSDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- While use of the clotting drug aprotinin (Trasylol) appears safe during on-pump cardiac surgeries, combining it with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors during off-pump cardiac surgery shows a significant risk of postoperative kidney dysfunction, British researchers say.