Tuesday, July 24, 2012

From U Sydney: What's wrong with the debate on mesh surgery?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22816314


 2012 Jul 23. doi: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2012.01467.x. [Epub ahead of print]

What's wrong with the debate on mesh surgery?

Source

Sydney Medical School Nepean, University of Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia.

Abstract

There is an increasingly acrimonious debate surrounding the use of anchored mesh in prolapse surgery. It is evident that clinicians and researchers working with this technology are under pressure from the public, from lawyers, regulators and colleagues. There is a risk that rapidly changing societal standards, championed by colleagues, lawyers and bureaucrats, will interfere with professional independence to such a degree that an entire new technology is lost before there has been time for clinical research to assess risks and benefits properly, before we learn which patients stand to benefit most, and before we get a chance to optimise implant design.

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