Archives June 2018

Rapid Operating Room Turnover

Improving Surgeons’ Personal Productivity By Surgery Management Improvement Group What do we mean by “Turnaround” Time? For Nurses, Turnaround Time usually means from one patient leaving the Operating Room to

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The Future of Surgical Technology

The future of surgery offers an amazing cooperation between humans and technology, which could elevate the level of precision and efficiency of surgeries so high we have never seen before.

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Five-Second Rule Validated in the Operating Room

By Skelepuns Disclaimer: This post is from GomerBlog, a satirical site about healthcare. CHICAGO – In a paradigm shift for the operating room, a new study has found that reusing

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Difference Between Scrub Nurse & Circulating Nurse

Scrub nurses and circulating nurses are involved with the medical care of patients during operations. The nature of their duties differs, however. Read on to learn more about how these

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Severe allergic reactions in surgery ’caused by antibiotics’

Antibiotics are the main cause of life-threatening allergic reactions during surgery, a new report suggests. The Royal College of Anaesthetists says more patients are claiming to be allergic to penicillin,

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Doctor battered by ex-patient’s son after he burst into surgery saying she ‘failed to diagnose late dad’s motor neurone disease’

Dr Victoria Hunter was treating a patient when Steven Cook, 41, barged in By Rob Pattinson   A SON who believed his late dad was misdiagnosed burst into a surgery and

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‘Black box’ recorder tracks surgical skills in the operating room

Keck Medicine of USC researchers develop a tool that separates the novice from the knowledgeable By Erica Rheinschild Has your doctor mastered the latest minimally invasive technology for surgery? To

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Dimpleplasty: Increasing Number of Millenials Having Cosmetic Surgery to Create Dimples

But it’ll cost you a pretty penny. By Rachel Hosie If you thought stick-on freckles were bad enough, brace yourself: the latest way people are changing their natural facial features is with

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She dreamed of getting plastic surgery in Miami. Three days later, she was dead.

BY SARAH BLASKEY, SONIA OSORIO AND DANIEL CHANG For Adianet Galván Gonzáles and her circle of family and friends, the popular surgical procedure known as a Brazilian butt lift was

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I’m a surgeon who operated on a man who had just committed a horrific murder — here’s how I control my emotions during surgery

By Paul A. Ruggieri In his book, surgeon Paul A. Ruggieri recounts an occasion in which he was called into surgery to urgently operate on a man who had just

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Ergonomic and Proper Handling of Surgical Instruments

By Szczepan 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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10 Signs the Hospital Wants to Discharge You Too Early—and How to Fight It

Everyone wants to get you home safe and keep you healthy, but sometimes going home is a bad option.It’s in the medical team’s best interest to discharge you when you’re

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World’s First Head Transplant Volunteer Could Experience Something “Worse Than Death”

“I would not wish this on anyone,” says top surgeon. In April, 2015, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head

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How Profiteers Coax Women Into Often-Unneeded Surgery

By Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Jerri Plummer was at home in Arkansas, watching television with her three children, when a stranger called to warn that her life was in danger. The caller

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