At this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology) in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June), doctors present the unique case of a man who suffered a flash ...

Surgical fires pose a risk to both clinicians and patients and can be catastrophic, resulting in patient burns and other serious injuries, disfigurement, and death. To address this issue, the US Food ...

The boy was undergoing surgery to remove a benign cyst when the doctors failed to communicate the use of an electrocautery device in conjunction with high oxygen levels, igniting a fire, court ...

From the departments of Medicine and Surgery, Lovelace Clinic and Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico (address reprint requests to Dr. Mowry at the Division of Cardiology, University of Utah Medical ...

Scalpel. Check. Sponge. Check. Fire extinguisher...check? When you think about the risks of surgery, "fire" usually doesn't come to mind. But that's what happened to a man in Australia who experienced ...