Globally, a staggering 310 million major surgeries are performed each year; around 40 to 50 million in USA and 20 million in Europe.
It is estimated that 1–4% of these patients will die, up to 15% will have serious postoperative morbidity, and 5–15% will be readmitted within 30 days. An annual global mortality of around 8 million patients places major surgery comparable with the leading causes of death from cardiovascular disease and stroke, cancer and injury.
If surgical complications were classified as a pandemic, developed countries would work together and devise an immediate action plan and allocate resources to address it.
Seeking to reduce preventable deaths and post-surgical complications would save billions of dollars in healthcare costs.
Scars are always created as a natural side-effect of surgery. And because scars never go away, the total number of people with scars increases year on year. So in an average 10 year period, you could expect 310 million x 10 people to be walking around with scars from surgery or traumatic accident.
Take any group of people with an age range of 30 to 75 years, and you can expect 50% to 75% (or more) to have a scar. It follows then, that 50% to 75% of people that visit your clinic will have a scar from a surgery or accidental injury. What do you do about it?
We have reported in many previous newsletters about the effects and implications of scarring, and we have more information on our website.
Then find out what you can do about eliminating those symptoms of scarring...
