AORN26 highlights a multidisciplinary, culture-driven approach that reduced colon surgical site infections by over 27%, demonstrating how standardized bundles, collaboration, and perioperative ...

Microbiota transplantation is safe and effective for treating clostridioides difficile infections, according to a clinical trial published in the journal Gastroenterology. Recurrent clostridioides ...

More Americans under 50 are being hospitalized with severe diverticulitis—a painful colon infection once rare in younger adults. Diverticulitis occurs when small pouches in the colon wall become ...

Fulminant colitis is a rare but severe form of colitis that can be life threatening. It affects the entire lining of the colon, causing severe inflammation and potentially serious complications. In ...

Peggy Lillis was a healthy single mom raising two boys and working extra jobs on the weekend. All that ended on April 21, 2010, when an ICU doctor told her son Liam that his mom, who had been healthy ...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Global Surgical Conference & Expo 2026 is coming up soon. It will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from April 11 to 14. To give a taste of ...

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Intuitive’s website. A high rate of colon surgical site infections (SSI) triggered financial penalties for Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center, a ...

In 2003, Dr. Guillermo Ponce De Leon performed a colon resection on William Orton Jr. Orton alleged the surgeon perforated his colon during the procedure and then failed to diagnose it. In the months ...