Category: Plastic Surgery

It’s been a while since I have written about Strax Rejuventaion. If you look back at my blog posts you will find that in the past I have taken a look at the mortality rates at Strax Rejuvenation. If you haven’t read it before, you might want to read it, and the analysis is shocking! One would think that a facility with such a questionable track record would make efforts to improve performance and ensure better outcomes. I’m not sure if Strax has made any changes at all to the way they do things. Over the past year or two it seems to me that Strax has been decreasing in popularity. There appears to be less advertising bombarding us on radio and television hawking their latest specials and low prices. This might mean that Strax is seeing less patients and performing less procedures than in years past. I can say that I have seen an increasing number of patients coming to my office for consultations who express to me that they would never consider Strax for their procedures. I do, however, continue to see patients that have been to Strax Rejuvenation for a procedure and have had issues. Sometimes they are not satisfied with the results, though that can happen in any office on occasion. More often I am seeing patients that have had complications leaving them with issues that require correction. Things like infections, healing difficulty possibly caused by poor technique, and lack of attentive follow up care can cause bad scarring or worse problems. Most recently one patient came to see me who had a terrible and life threatening problem. She described her experience to me. This patient had liposuction with fat transfer to the buttocks about a year ago. In the recovery room she was having difficulty breathing. The level of oxygen in her blood was very low and a chest x-ray was performed. She was told that she had pneumonia and was given a prescription for antibiotics. Despite still having difficulty breathing she was sent home. Rather than actually going home she decided to get checked out at a local hospital. She went to an emergency room and was very quickly admitted with a pulmonary edema. This is a problem in which there is too much fluid around the lungs making it hard to get enough oxygen into the body. It is a life threatening condition. She spent many days in the hospital and, thankfully, was able to recover. Luckily this patient was smart enough to seek more care, a decision that probably saved her life. How many other patients have been in similar situations at Strax Rejuvenation and not fared so well? Sending a patient home with difficulty breathing, feeling short of breath, is never a good idea. When the patient has an oxygen saturation level of 70% (normal is generally above 95%) it is more than a bad idea, its bad medicine. So it seems the track record continues today. Though this patient didn’t die, she easily could have. I suppose the old adage is true,  leopards really can’t change their Strax, I mean, spots.