Saline lavage, meant to loosen up calcified shoulder tendons, provided no benefit in a double-blind, sham-controlled trial, researchers said. Four months after treatment, Oxford Shoulder Score ...

Researchers said the common invasive procedure, known as ultrasound-guided lavage, appears to be useless. "The study findings should lead to a critical reconsideration of treatment guidelines for ...

Laparoscopic lavage failed to reduce postoperative complications in emergency diverticulitis surgery and was associated with a higher reoperation rate compared with resection in a randomized trial.

Pulsatile lavage equipment culprit behind several hospital infections; importance of strict infection control procedures reinforced. Issue: February 2005 Add topic to email alerts Subscribe Back ...

Bronchoalveolar Lavage Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), performed during fiberoptic bronchoscopy, is a useful adjunct to lung biopsy in the diagnosis of nonneoplastic lung diseases in a limited ...

Approximately 3,000 pulsatile lavage procedures are performed annually at Hopkins. The emergence of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii is a worldwide phenomenon, with numerous hospital outbreaks ...

To find out if the two comparative effectiveness studies changed practice patterns, the study's authors examined the rates of the procedure in outpatient surgery centers from 1998 to 2010 using ...

Further investigation revealed that a change in the pulsatile lavage procedure had occurred two months prior to the outbreak.

A U.S. doctor who cowrote an editorial published with the study said too many lavage procedures are done for shoulder pain. But how many are done in the United States each year isn't known.