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Liposuction New York City
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Question: Liposuction is the most common cosmetic surgery in the United States.
The number of people undergoing the medical procedure has increased
216 percent since 1992. As the practice has increased, so have rumors
of complications and deaths.
But a new study documenting five deaths from liposuction has
raised questions about the safety of the elective surgery to reduce
fat.
Can anyone give me some tips to choose a good plastic surgeon?
Answer: Consider a doctor certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery,
which means a physician has graduated from an accredited medical
school and completed at least five years of additional residency.
The doctor should have privileges to perform the procedure at an
accredited hospital in your community.
Choose a surgeon who is well versed and up-to-date in the procedure.
Ask whether the doctor performs the procedure frequently or only
occasionally.
Source: American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
Another liposuction patient, Judy Fernandez, 47, had a different
doctor but the same outcome. Death records show her cause of death to
be complications of liposuction and cosmetic surgery.
"What I saw was really a horrifying scene," . "My
wife was spread open on the operating table still; she never made it
out of the room; her extremities were swollen almost twice her size."
Both women were from California and had a type of liposuction known as
"tumescent" in which the patient is infused with an anesthetic
solution containing lidocaine.
Researchers from New York City Poison Control looked at 48,527 New
York City death records and concluded four deaths were associated with
tumescent liposuction over a period from 1993 to 1998. The fifth was
found in an unidentified state.
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