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Tummy Tuck Before And After
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Question: State officials, reacting to a cluster of deaths after cosmetic
surgery in medical offices, have temporarily banned a common technique
surgeons use to suction out fat and cut away sagging stomach skin.
Florida's Board of Medicine on Friday issued an emergency order
prohibiting doctors for the next 90 days from combining "tummy tucks,"
in which loose skin is cut away, with liposuction that vacuums out
underlying fat. The two procedures must be separated by at least two
weeks.
Have you heard about that? Any more information to share with me?
Answer: This is the second time in recent years the medical board has
restricted office surgery amid safety concerns. The officials also
required that surgeons submit summaries of the outcome of operations
they do in their offices. Those will be used to determine if tougher
safety standards are needed permanently.
The board acted after the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that
five people have died since May of last year following surgery to
reshape their bodies, including two people operated on at the Florida
Center for Cosmetic Surgery in Fort Lauderdale.
"Our job is to protect the public safety," said a board member
, an emergency room physician in Fort Lauderdale.
"Maybe some physicians are more cavalier than they should be," he
said. "Some physicians are not as cautious as they could be or
should be in selecting patients for the outpatient surgery setting."
The surprise order came during a board meeting in Pensacola and caught
state health officials and medical groups off guard. Health department
officials had no comment.
"We'll have something after the lawyers have gone over it and dotted
all the i's and crossed all the t's," said Florida Department of
Health spokesman Robert Hayes.
Even before the ink dried, the action came under attack from the
state's plastic surgeons.
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