Adhesions - The Silent Invader
According to the *National Women's Health Resource Center (NWHRC), surgeons do not communicate very well at all.
A whopping 80% of women who had undergone pelvic surgery were not informed of the risk of developing adhesions prior to surgery.
Of those women, 70% said they would have taken special precautions to protect themselves from getting adhesions ifonly they had been aware of possible adhesion-related complications.
However, if 70% would have taken special precautions, one can only wonder if this is the very reason these women were not informed of the risk.
As is well known among those who suffer from adhesions, the number one precautionary measure against adhesion formation would be to reconsider surgery.
Surgery is the number one cause of adhesion formation, yet as the NWHRC report reveals, most doctors and surgeons are not informing their patient about this natural healing response that occurs after a surgical incision (surgery is trauma to the body).
Since adhesion formation can result in a debilitating disorder known as adhesion related disorder (ARD), doctors and surgeons owe it to their patients to inform the patient of all risks of surgery prior to performing any surgical procedure.
Of course, there are instances where surgery cannot be avoided; there are also instances where an alternative procedure might work just as well, eliminating the risks that are involved with a surgical procedure.
The patient should be allowed the chance to determine if the risk of surgery is worth the expected benefit of surgery.
In addition, the patient has the right to know all the possible outcomes that may result from surgery-the good as well as the bad.
Though many surgeons are gravitating toward minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic surgery) there are instances where some surgeons continue with a major incision into the body (laparotomy) when less invasive surgery (laparoscopy) would have accomplished the task at hand, with less trauma to the body, and less risk (both present and future) to the patient.
(At the same time, we recognize the fact that there are instances where a surgeon has no choice but to open the abdomen (laparotomy.
)) Since 93% of patients who undergo major abdominal and pelvic surgery will develop adhesions, with more than 50% of those patients later developing problematic health issues that are directly related to adhesion formation, it is unfathomable that USA doctors, surgeons, and hospitals require so much of the patient, (consent forms, etc.
) to protect the doctor and hospital, yet there is silence when it comes to informing the patient about the risk of adhesion formation.
The silence of adhesions...
it's deafening.
Source: (NWHRC) National Women's Health Resource Center
A whopping 80% of women who had undergone pelvic surgery were not informed of the risk of developing adhesions prior to surgery.
Of those women, 70% said they would have taken special precautions to protect themselves from getting adhesions ifonly they had been aware of possible adhesion-related complications.
However, if 70% would have taken special precautions, one can only wonder if this is the very reason these women were not informed of the risk.
As is well known among those who suffer from adhesions, the number one precautionary measure against adhesion formation would be to reconsider surgery.
Surgery is the number one cause of adhesion formation, yet as the NWHRC report reveals, most doctors and surgeons are not informing their patient about this natural healing response that occurs after a surgical incision (surgery is trauma to the body).
Since adhesion formation can result in a debilitating disorder known as adhesion related disorder (ARD), doctors and surgeons owe it to their patients to inform the patient of all risks of surgery prior to performing any surgical procedure.
Of course, there are instances where surgery cannot be avoided; there are also instances where an alternative procedure might work just as well, eliminating the risks that are involved with a surgical procedure.
The patient should be allowed the chance to determine if the risk of surgery is worth the expected benefit of surgery.
In addition, the patient has the right to know all the possible outcomes that may result from surgery-the good as well as the bad.
Though many surgeons are gravitating toward minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic surgery) there are instances where some surgeons continue with a major incision into the body (laparotomy) when less invasive surgery (laparoscopy) would have accomplished the task at hand, with less trauma to the body, and less risk (both present and future) to the patient.
(At the same time, we recognize the fact that there are instances where a surgeon has no choice but to open the abdomen (laparotomy.
)) Since 93% of patients who undergo major abdominal and pelvic surgery will develop adhesions, with more than 50% of those patients later developing problematic health issues that are directly related to adhesion formation, it is unfathomable that USA doctors, surgeons, and hospitals require so much of the patient, (consent forms, etc.
) to protect the doctor and hospital, yet there is silence when it comes to informing the patient about the risk of adhesion formation.
The silence of adhesions...
it's deafening.
Source: (NWHRC) National Women's Health Resource Center
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