Liposuction

Liposuction
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Cosmetic surgeons, dermatologists and other physicians performed approximately 400,000 liposuction this past year, making it the country's top aesthetic procedure. The surgery can be a gold mine for doctors, who can select set charges and patients without scuffling with health insurers. And the large majority of recipients come away happy and unharmed. By scouring New York death records, researchers identified five individuals who died after liposuction from 1993 to 1998. The blunt conclusion: this routine procedure can "kill otherwise healthy persons."

The deaths reviewed within the brand new study all involved variations on "tumescent" liposuction, a popular method developed by dermatologists in the late 1980s. The physician injects the unwanted fatty tissue with various quarts of fluid, which is spiked with lidocaine (to block pain) and epinephrine (to constrict blood vessels and decrease bleeding). The water logged fat cells are then sucked out with the liquid through keyhole incisions. Unless something goes awry - - the procedure saves blood, time and money.