Prosthetics

Prostheses are designed to replace a missing part of the body or to make a part of the body work better.

Follow the links below to find information about prosthetics.

Updated September 2008

18 Resources Found

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Title:	Breast reconstruction and mastectomy
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Surgery is the primary treatment for breast cancer. Depending on the tumour, part or all of the breast may be removed. Some women choose to have breast reconstruction surgery to give a similar appearance to the look of their original breast in normal clothes.
Date:	Aug 2008

Title:	Erectile dysfunction treatments
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Erectile dysfunction (ED), or impotence, is the inability to get or keep an erection. Treatments include drugs administered orally such as Viagra or into the penis. Other treatments include vacuum devices, counselling or implants sometimes in combination.
Date:	Jan 2008

Title:	Interventions for preventing posterior capsule opacification
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Posterior capsule opacification (PCO) is the most common long-term complication after cataract surgery with implantation of an intraocular lens (IOL). It can be treated by cutting a hole in the posterior lens capsule with an Nd:YAG laser (Neodymium:YAG ...
Date:	Feb 2007

Title:	Impotence treatments
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	Learn about the methods now available to treat impotence (erectile dysfunction), a very common condition.
Date:	Jul 2006

Title:	Response to preliminary conclusions of the Prostheses Listing Arrangements Review
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF response to the preliminary conclusions of the Chair of the Prostheses List Review about private health insurance cover for medical devices used during surgery.
Date:	Sep 2007

Title:	Media release. Rudd Government improves help for women with breast cancer
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The Rudd Government is investing $43 million to support women with breast cancer - delivering new breast cancer nurses to rural and regional areas and providing a subsidy of up to $400 for breast prostheses through Medicare Australia.
Date:	Sep 2008

Title:	Antiplatelet and anticoagulation for patients with prosthetic heart valves
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	After heart valve replacement oral anticoagulation (a blood thinner) is frequently used to keep blood clots from forming on the valve. These blood clots can block the flow of blood through the valve or break off and cause a stroke. Blood thinners, such...
Date:	Jun 2003

Title:	Prostheses and Devices Committee (PDC)
Publisher:	Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The Prostheses and Devices Committee (PDC) was established by the Minister for Health and Ageing on 14 July 2004.
Date:	Nov 2007

Title:	Media release. Reimbursements now available for breast prostheses
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	Australian women who have had a mastectomy as a result of breast cancer will be reimbursed for the cost of breast prostheses up to $400.
Date:	Dec 2008

Title:	Implementing private health reforms: Consumers have a say - Discussion session with the Health Consumers' Council WA - Perth, April 2008
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF and the Health Consumers Council WA held a free consumer discussion session on consumer issues to do with reforms to private health insurance on Wednesday 30 April 2008 in Perth, Western Australia.
Date:	Apr 2008

Title:	New health technologies and medical devices consumer representatives workshop report
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF held this workshop for consumer representatives and interested members to increase awareness of and consider issues around approval, funding and monitoring processes of new technologies such as medical devices and prostheses.
Date:	Dec 2007

Title:	Implementing private health reforms: Consumers have a say - Discussion session with Heart Support Australia, Ipswich and West Moreton Branch - Ipswich, Qld, March 2008
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF and Heart Support Australia, Ipswich and West Moreton Branch, held a free consumer discussion session on prostheses and informed financial consent arrangements under private health insurance on Tuesday 4 March 2008 in Ipswich, Queensland.
Date:	Mar 2008

Title:	Evidence v access - joint replacement registry success
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	The National Joint Replacement Registry provides the evidence clinicians need to make informed decisions that have led to a better revision rate that has saved consumers - and the health care system - pain, time and money.
Date:	Oct 2007

Title:	Information paper: New technologies, medical devices and prostheses
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	As part of CHF work on health care for people with chronic conditions, CHF is looking at how new technologies, medical devices and prostheses are approved for marketing, funded and monitored in use in Australia.
Date:	Nov 2007

Title:	Submission to the Prostheses List Review
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF calls on the Prostheses List Review to ensure that data to demonstrate evidence-based selection of implantable devices by surgeons, with no gap payments for consumers, is collected, monitored and publicly available.
Date:	Aug 2007

Title:	AcrySof? ReSTOR? Multifocal Intraocular Lens
Publisher:	Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures - Surgical (ASERNIP-S)
Description:	ASERNIP-S has performed a prioritising summary on AcrySof? ReSTOR? Multifocal Intraocular Lens.
Date:	Mar 2006

Title:	Informed consumers make informed decisions: implications of new legislation on prostheses
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	Patients may face unexpected gap payments for surgical implants such as hip and knee replacements from 31 October 2005 because of new legislation. Prostheses will now be listed on the Prostheses List with a minimum benefit payable by health funds.
Date:	Jan 2005

Title:	Nipple reconstruction
Publisher:	National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:	If your nipple has been removed during surgery, it is possible for it to be reconstructed. This can be done using the skin on your breast, or tissue from another part of your body.
Date:	Oct 2003

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