Someone told me that using scans and stuff in operating rooms adds too much time to surgery, making it dangerous to be open for that long. Is that true?
Doctors are always trying to find ways to make surgery safer and more accurate, resulting in better outcomes all around. One way doctors are improving their results is by using technology that has already been used in other areas of medicine. For quite a while, portable x-rays have been used in operating rooms when they were necessary. Now, surgeons are beginning to include tests such as computed tomography imaging (CT scans) to see what is going on inside the patient. A study that was recently done looking at the use of CT scans in back surgery, found that adding the scans only added an average of 14 minutes to the procedures. Considering how successful the surgeries were, the researchers felt that the added time was beneficial and not dangerous for the patients.
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