Archives January 2019

Mumbai: Doctors transferred, terminated after 3 lose eye in cataract surgery

American Academy of Ophthalmologist: Image Credit The medical superintendent of civic-run Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma Care Hospital was demoted and transferred on Monday, while the services of an honorary eye surgeon were terminated

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HOT topics in the OR

In the OR, the stakes are high for perioperative nurses, physicians and others who work as a cohesive team for optimal results. The future holds much of the same —

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Surgical Skin Prep – Perioperative Patient Care Fundamentals

Posted by: Kimberly Prinsen RN, MSN When I think of the role of a circulating nurse in the Operating Room I’m struck by both the complexity of the work and the

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Indian cardiologist performs world’s first telerobotic surgery from a distance of 32 km

Telerobotic surgery will be commercialized for a timely and specialized treatment of cardiovascular patients with geographical barriers. India became the world’s first to successfully perform a telerobotic coronary intervention on

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Diseases in the drapes: Hospital privacy curtains are a breeding ground for MRSA and other dangerous bugs because they are ‘always touched but rarely changed’ 

Bacterial swabs of privacy curtains at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg found they all harboured the hospital superbug MRSA at some point over a 21-day period (stock image) Canadian

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