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Being a travel nurse, you are given the opportunity to go wherever you want to be. From mountain areas to beaches and anywhere you may opt to, you are free to choose your desired locations where you can help patients in either busy cities or rural areas…. …
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Symptoms of a brain tumor can be general or specific. A general symptom is caused by the pressure of the tumor on the brain or spinal cord. Specific symptoms are caused when a specific part of the brain is not…. …
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When mitral valve prolapse is severe enough to cause significant valve leakage, called “regurgitation,” it can lead to serious complications such as heart attack and stroke… …
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Delighted to announce that The Operating Room Global (TORG) will be partnering with Incision Academy to deliver digital surgical solutions, blended learning, device certification and competence tracking to all OR professionals across a global scale.
Our mission is to continually exchange best practice knowledge across global platforms, learn about the latest standards in operating room techniques internationally and to make operating room professionals stay abreast of the current technological changes in the same industry.
In doing so we believe that the surgical world will become a safer place and to give everybody involved the chance to feel comfortable that their knowledge and skills are of the highest level possible.
With Incision Academy, you can sharpen your surgical skills with over 500 high quality video courses, and excel in the operation room, and discover a wide variety of Surgeons/residents courses, scrub nurse courses, nurse anesthetist and surgical technologists courses.
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Revision hip surgery is more complicated and more time consuming than first time hip replacements and the outcome is often less satisfactory. Complete pain relief is less common than in first time hip replacements and complication rates are higher…. …
The operating room can be a scary place for children, with unfamiliar equipment and people dressed in strange outfits… …
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A study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published in JAMA Surgery on Feb. 12 indicates that surgical jackets and head covers known as bouffants did not reduce the incidence of surgical site
Continue ReadingStudy shows new surgical protective gear does not reduce surgical site infections
The husband of a British woman who died after liposuction surgery in Turkey is warning others over the risks of health tourism. A postmortem found Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose died from peritonitis and multi-organ failure after complications from liposuction…
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These devices are surgically placed and deliver pacing – or an electric counter-shock – to the heart when a life-threatening abnormal rhythm is detected…
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Continue ReadingSurgical Devices and Procedures used in Heart Failure Treatment
The most common procedure is the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Here, a small stomach pouch is created with…
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In some institutions, the floaters are also responsible for organizing the instrumentation and supplies that will be used during each case. This important task can save valuable time between cases….
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Suturing entails the closure of a wound or defect using a thread attached to a needle with knots tied to maintain the apposition of wound edges
As with all simple procedures, suturing can be done well or poorly.. …
The floors of hospital rooms are quickly and frequently contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria within hours of patient admission, creating a route of transfer of potentially dangerous organisms to patients… …
Continue ReadingHospital floors are hotspot for bacteria, creating route of transfer to patients
When a needle is lost during surgery, consider the following before ordering fluoroscopy. Needles of chord length greater than 13 mm (6–0) should be reliably detected whilst 3.8 mm (10–0) needles will not. For sizes in between, ideal conditions for detection may include an operating field in the lower limb, high‐resolution fluoroscopy and a senior observer…. …
An advert shown during Love Island in 2018 about breast enhancement is one example which raised concerns over the protection of children. It led to the Mental Health Foundation logging complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)… …
Laminectomy is usually done for back or neck pain that continues after medical treatment. Or it is done when the pain is accompanied by symptoms of nerve damage, such as numbness or weakness in the arms or legs….. …
Nearly 40 percent of pregnant surgery residents consider dropping out. Many wonder: Why can’t the system accommodate motherhood?
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Epidemiologists warn there is no proof that antibody tests can show if someone who has been infected cannot be infected again. There is no evidence that people who have recovered
A rising death toll among doctors in Italy provides a warning about the dangers of poor protection and testing. Last week, the Italian government began publishing a new dataset related to the
Continue ReadingWhy Surgeons Don’t Want to Operate Right Now
A 72-year-old woman has suffered burns after a fire ignited while she was undergoing a procedure in a Sunshine Hospital surgical theatre. The blaze began when medical equipment malfunctioned just
Nursing staff will be urged to undertake a two year course to become “surgical care practitioners” Nurses will be trained to perform surgery under new NHS measures to cut waiting
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Patients usually have questions before a surgical procedure. Doctors like to know their patients are involved in their own care, and they appreciate listening to their concerns, answering their questions
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Happy New Year from The Operating Room Global (TORG). We all wish that there was more time in the day. When the day is over and we look back at
The scientist He Jiankui at a medical conference in Hong Kong last year, when he announced he had created the world’s first genetically edited babies. Image Credit…Kin Cheung/Associated Press He
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A patient has died after she was set alight during surgery for cancer, succumbing to burns on 40 percent of her body. Surgeons had used an electric scalpel and flammable
Continue ReadingRomanian woman dies after being set on fire during surgery
Surgeons have removed a kidney weighing 7.4 kilograms (16.3 pounds) — the equivalent size of two newborn babies — from a patient in India. It is thought to be the heaviest
Continue ReadingDoctors remove giant kidney weighing 16.3 pounds
The president of Massachusetts General Hospital has long insisted that it was perfectly safe for some surgeons to oversee two operations at the same time. Dr. Peter Slavin told the Globe
Continue ReadingDouble-booked surgery cited in death at MGH, records indicate
Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup said Sunday it is canceling more than 140 elective surgeries this week after discovering flecks of plastic on some surgical trays. KIRO 7 reached out to a spokesperson
Continue ReadingGood Samaritan Hospital cancels more than 140 elective surgeries
Kalan, M.D., (left) and Darrell Cass, M.D., (right) perform in utero spina bifida surgery. Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida
Continue ReadingCleveland Clinic Performs Its First In Utero Fetal Surgery
TORONTO — More than 550 objects have been unintentionally left in Canadian medical and surgery patients between 2016 and 2018, and the problem appears to be getting worse. A new
Continue ReadingSurgical objects left in patients on the rise in Canada, data shows