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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
Continue ReadingCape Fear Valley shows off new lab, new operating room
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
Continue ReadingSurgery students ‘losing dexterity to stitch patients’
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
Continue ReadingEverything I needed to know about leadership, I learned as an operating room nurse
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
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
Continue ReadingHospital lets kids ‘drive’ to surgery with motorized car
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.
Continue ReadingOperating room of the future features less clutter, more technology
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Using two tiny mechanical claws, community members tested out Skagit Regional Health’s new robotic surgery system by unwrapping Starburst candies and moving around mini-rubber rings.
Continue ReadingSkagit Regional Health to offer robotic-assisted surgery
Dena Knapp went to Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., to have an adrenal gland and associated mass removed. Instead, according to a lawsuit, Dr. Scott Baker removed her
Continue ReadingWoman says surgeon removed kidney by mistake in botched operation