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Image credit: MedGadget By Brainlab A: “A hybrid operating room always has to have in-room imaging.” E: “But that could also be a digital O.R.” A: “Sure, but a digital
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Image Credit: facmediciney Life Hacker Career Spotlight It’s easy to take for granted the precision with which modern medicine can manage and alleviate pain, whether you’re put under for surgery
Screenshot: Google/HealthPlus Surgery Center Over 3,000 patients at a New Jersey surgical center may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens after investigators found the facility wasn’t properly following sterilization guidelines
Image Credit: nursejobsIreland We can all agree that nurses work hard enough as it is! So why do some nurses take on extra work to make the shift towards becoming
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Diane Jooris is pioneering research into VR for patients (Oncomfort) Two medical specialists talk about how they are using VR for both doctors and patients in surgery. Virtual reality was first introduced
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Shutterstock A 2-year-old boy who was supposed to undergo a “minimal operation” was “castrated” when doctors accidentally operated on the wrong testicle, his family says. The boy was treated for
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(John Fedele/Getty Images) In the operating room, surgical masks and matching scrubs can make it hard to tell who’s who — at least for outsiders. Patients getting wheeled in might
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Surgeons at a Canadian hospital have used cutting edge technology to completely reconstruct a two-year-old’s skull after her head swelled to the size of a basketball due to an abnormal
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Smoke rose in curls of green laser light, quickly filling the mock operating room and fogging the air around a mannequin patient. Dr. Scott Augustine, a controversial medical entrepreneur and
UK hospitals adopting barn theatre approach to improve outcomes Operating theatre design has remained largely unchanged for decades, but more recently a new architectural approach is beginning to take hold.
BY lSZCZEPAN BARAN, VMD, ELIZABETH JOHNSON, VMD AND MARCEL PERRET-GENTIL, DVM Although not always recognized, proper handling of surgical instruments plays a vital role in positive surgical patient outcomes. Correct
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The Cape Fear Valley Board of Trustees tour the new Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement operating room and Simulation Lab.[Raul F. Rubiera/The Fayetteville Observer]▲ Michael Boose, a hospital trustee and county
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Critically ill patients were having urgent, lifesaving operations when a leak in the floor above operating rooms sprung, sending water into the surgical suites. Surgeons halted one case while others
Safe Surgery Together – Make plans to celebrate yourself, your team, and your profession. How to Celebrate with AORN Eat Cake with Your Team Plan a gathering with cake or
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Experts who were supposed to assist surgeons carrying out the first robotic heart valve operation of its kind in the UK left the hospital theatre before the procedure was finished
A professor of surgery says students have spent so much time in front of screens and so little time using their hands that they have lost the dexterity for stitching
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By Helena Hutton As a young operating room nurse, a mentor of mine once asked me a very simple question: why do operating room nurses wear surgical masks? I was
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Maureen Pacheco, 53, of Florida, had suffered lower back pain for years after a car accident She went to Wellington Regional Medical Center to have lower back bones fused After
“The Humble Technologist”- The Surgical Tech’s Creed was written to show the world how much more we do than just pass instruments and count sponges. We are the backbone of
John Sarcona was at a baseball game when his mother Joanne found the bloodied T-shirts in his laundry hamper. His bedding was bloody too, and she knew something had gone
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Children in the hospital can now swap wheelchairs for four wheels and drive themselves to surgery in mini motorized cars. The motorized vehicles are being used at a hospital in Leicester
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By Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan I want to tell you a story. It may seem like a fairy tale, and in many ways, it is. It is a journey that zigzags
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The College of Nursing and Health Professions is pleased to introduce a series of articles authored by Paul Thomas Clements, who will share his expertise on topics such as workplace
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The job search can prove to be challenging and take a good amount of time and effort. You have been diligent with making sure your resume is eye-catching and that
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When Amelia Eldred, an active 7-year-old in England, needed her leg amputated to treat bone cancer, doctors performed an unusual surgery: They removed the middle part of her leg and then
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A second British woman has died after undergoing “Brazilian butt lift” surgery, it emerged today. The woman, aged in her late 20s, died following the cosmetic procedure earlier this year. It
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A Canadian surgeon became the talk of the Internet after he performed an operation without the use of anaesthetic – on his patient’s ripped teddy bear. Dr Daniel McNeely, a
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A joint research team including faculty from Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina has unveiled a high-fidelity, mock operating room at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston.
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In some wealthy countries, more than 1 in 1,000 people may be employed as specialist surgeons. The world of medicine has changed drastically in the past few decades. There have
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ACCORDING TO DEGREE OF RISK Major – High degree of risk. May be complicated /prolonged, large losses of blood may occur, vital organs be involved, post-op complications may be likely.