The Stitch Fall 2017 now available
This issue covers UF Health’s new hospital opening, our collaboration with Sacred Heart, an announcement from our new chair and much more!…
This issue covers UF Health’s new hospital opening, our collaboration with Sacred Heart, an announcement from our new chair and much more!…
A quality improvement initiative has led to a significant drop in narcotic pain medications prescribed to patients who undergo colorectal surgery at UF Health Shands Hospital. Atif Iqbal, M.D.
The findings of a study led by researchers from the UF College of Medicine’s department of surgery suggest a standardized, multidisciplinary protocol helps improve the management of patients admitted to the hospital for acute gastrointestinal bleeding.
Nineteen members of the UF College of Medicine faculty, along with two from the College of Nursing, three from the College of Pharmacy, two from the College of Veterinary Medicine and one from the College of Public Health and Health Professions, were recognized for their achievements at the Celebrating Distinction…
“Sepsis is now the most expensive in-hospital condition in America. In fact, it is responsible for more deaths in America than AIDS, prostate cancer and breast cancer combined,” said Philip Efron, M.D., co-director of Laboratory of Inflammation Biology and Surgical Science and part of the UF Sepsis and Critical Illness…
Physiology/Pharmacology doctoral candidate Joe Flores-Toro took first place the sixth annual Robert Levitt Institute for learning in retirement (ILR)/UF Aging Research Competition.
Dr. Azra Bihorac, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Dr. Charles Hobson and Matthew Huber. When patients undergo surgery, they are at risk for kidney injury, which can occur when kidneys suddenly can’t filter waste from blood. UF Health researchers have found that when patients…