Caresyntax

JANUARY 13, 2025

The initial phase will focus on building the first-ever standardized and transparent patient database to establish baseline data on the incidence and outcomes of surgical leaks using Qaelon Medicals proprietary intra-operative data. Across all phases, Qaelon and Caresyntax will be actively engaged with leading surgeons and health systems.

Operating Room

SpecialtyCare

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A Cardiothoracic Surgical First Assistant is a specialized surgical professional who provides direct assistance to the surgeon during cardiothoracic procedures. Their contributions are vital to the success of complex procedures like coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), valve repair or replacement, lung resections, and heart transplants.

Surgical First Assistant

SpecialtyCare

JULY 6, 2025

Cost Efficiency: Extending the lifespan of instruments avoids costly replacements and delays in surgical procedures. Operational Flow: Efficient reprocessing reduces instrument shortages and supports timely surgeries. Collaborative Networks: Regional sterile processing centers supporting multiple hospitals for standardized quality.

Sterile

SpecialtyCare

JULY 15, 2025

The signals of these modalities during surgical procedures offer an early warning in the event that neural injury is imminent. Most commonly during spinal operations, SSEPs are stimulated at the median and ulnar nerves in the upper extremities, and the posterior tibial and peroneal nerves in the lower extremities. Language Mapping.

Surgery

SpecialtyCare

JUNE 9, 2025

When they operate in silos, miscommunication is inevitable, leading to errors and delays that can inhibit operations and even harm patients. This also allows us to anticipate high-demand items — like specialty mesh for hernia procedures — and prevent shortages.”

Communication

SpecialtyCare

JANUARY 16, 2025

These specialists work side-by-side with surgeons, leveraging state-of-the-art techniques and technologies to enhance the success of each procedure. Enhancing Operational Efficiency Beyond clinical support, SpecialtyCares logistics and administrative services streamline the organ procurement process.

Sterile

SpecialtyCare

JUNE 13, 2025

The sterile processing department workflow encompasses every step from the moment contaminated instruments leave the operating room to their return as sterile, ready-to-use surgical tools. When this workflow is optimized, surgical delays are minimized, infection risks are reduced, and overall hospital efficiency improves dramatically.

Sterile

SpecialtyCare

JULY 17, 2025

With limited access to resources and infrastructure, the hospital operates in a way that requires grit, flexibility, and community-driven collaboration. Operating room turnover was long, surgical complexity was high, and everything ran on what the team fondly called “Nigerian time.” Hemoconcentrators?

Operating Room

SpecialtyCare

JANUARY 12, 2025

Flexible and Scalable Solutions Why It Works: In todays fast-paced healthcare environment, ancillary care services play a crucial role in ensuring efficient patient care, reducing operational burdens, and enhancing outcomes. We collaborate directly with surgical teams to provide seamless integration.

Surgical Assistant

Neurosurgery

JUNE 26, 2025

He was a master surgeon who delighted in performing rigorous cerebrovascular procedures, especially microvascular decompressions for trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm. He would show off the anatomy of a procedure to the entire operating room, explaining everything on the screen while mentoring the residents.

Operating Room

Caresyntax

JULY 31, 2025

As healthcare organizations increasingly modernize their operating rooms (ORs), a crucial technical decision must be made: should the video infrastructure rely on traditional SDI (Serial Digital Interface) or transition to Video over IP (Internet Protocol)? This makes SDI less flexible to meet evolving OR needs.

Operating Room

The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 6, 2025

Who is the Captain of the Ship in the operating room, the surgeon or the anesthesiologist? The Captain of the Ship doctrine was a 20 th century legal doctrine which held that, in an operating room, the surgeon was “liable for all actions conducted in the course of the operation.” The intern failed to irrigate the eye.

Operating Room

SpecialtyCare

JUNE 21, 2025

As surgical procedures continue to increase and infection prevention becomes increasingly critical, career opportunities in sterile processing are expanding rapidly across the country. Table of Contents Discover Rewarding Career Opportunities in Sterile Processing Why Choose Career Opportunities in Sterile Processing?

Sterile

NVIDIA: Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2024

AI — already used to connect, analyze and offer predictions based on operating room data — will be critical to the future of surgery, boosting operating room efficiency and clinical decision-making. NVIDIA supports the IGX software stack with NVIDIA AI Enterprise , the enterprise operating system for production-grade AI.

Operating Room

BFW Inc.

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Healthcare organizations may be deterred from using surgical cameras in the operating room for numerous reasons, including high equipment costs, potential workflow disruption, and patient privacy concerns. Through surgical video technology, procedures can be live-streamed directly from the surgeon’s point-of-view to a wall-mounted display.

Operating Room

CNECT

JUNE 14, 2023

In ambulatory surgery centers, efficient operating rooms result in optimized schedules, higher patient volume, and streamlined operating processes. Facilities struggling with inefficiencies risk dangerous mistakes and longer operating times which can affect patient outcomes. What Causes Operating Room Inefficiencies?

Operating Room

NVIDIA: Healthcare

MAY 15, 2024

A collaboration between NVIDIA and academic researchers is prepping robots for surgery. It supports more than a dozen maneuvers inspired by the training curriculum for laparoscopic procedures, aka minimally invasive surgery, such as grasping small objects like needles, passing them from one arm to another and placing them with high precision.

Suture

Clemson

MAY 30, 2022

The Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room (RIPCHD.OR) learning lab uses a socio-technical approach incorporating human factors engineering and evidence-based design principles to create an optimal ergonomically sound operating room that results in improved patient and staff safety.

Operating Room

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Traverse rectus abdominal muscle, flap (TRAM Flap), commonly used in breast reconstruction procedures, are intricate surgeries that demand precision and teamwork; for plastic surgeons performing these complex operations, having a skilled surgical assistant can significantly enhance the procedure’s success and efficiency.

Surgical Assistant

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Trans abdominal flaps, commonly used in breast reconstruction procedures, are intricate surgeries that demand precision and teamwork, for plastic surgeons performing these complex operations, having a skilled surgical assistant can significantly enhance the procedure’s success and efficiency. Learn more about our services here.

Surgical Assistant

EARN Cares

MARCH 24, 2022

The operating room (OR) is a team based unit where patients undergo surgical procedures. This means that they understand the different types of procedures, required surgical equipment for each procedure, and know how to prepare the OR for surgery. Surgical nursing is unlike any other nursing specialty or unit.

Operating Room

NVIDIA: Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Medical-device company Invenio Imaging is developing technology that enables surgeons to evaluate tissue biopsies in the operating room, immediately after samples are collected — providing in just three minutes AI-accelerated insights that would otherwise take weeks to obtain from a pathology lab. Quicker diagnosis enables quicker treatment.

Operating Room

Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

They play a crucial role in healthcare by ensuring patient safety and comfort before, during, and after surgical procedures. Additionally, CRNAs are regarded as medical experts who play a collaborative role within the medical team in both planning and executing medical procedures.

CRNA

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Spine surgeries are intricate, demanding procedures that require the precision of a well-coordinated surgical team. While the surgeon often takes the spotlight, the success of these procedures relies heavily on the seamless collaboration of key players behind the scenes.

Physician Assistant

Caresyntax

APRIL 25, 2024

They discussed the transformative role of AI in enhancing surgical operations, providing real-time data directly to physicians, reducing patient risks and optimizing procedural outcomes. AI Assistance: Various ways AI is being integrated into surgical procedures to support decision-making and improve surgical accuracy.

Surgical Operation

MEDITEK

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Medical lights provide your healthcare team with the focus, precision and attention to detail needed during the most demanding procedures. These lights have empowered doctors across more than 100 countries to perform modern operations and make precise diagnoses.

Operating Room

SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

To improve SPD efficiency, effective management tools need to be implemented, including training and error tracking, tray optimization, and increased communication and collaboration between the SPD and the OR. The Journal cited a study where instrument tray load decreased by up to 39% thanks to assessment and optimization procedures.

Collaboration

Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With costs increasingly shifting to patients and an aging population needing more procedures, ASCs occupy a uniquely competitive place in the healthcare sector. You’ll see and understand what is ‘under the hood’ from clinical, financial, operational and regulatory perspectives,” shares Eisenberg.

Surgery

Picis

JANUARY 15, 2024

By digitizing the information that once was found sprawled across whiteboards in a clinical setting, patient tracking systems can help your organization deliver a higher standard of communication, collaboration, and patient care in a perioperative environment. How is the procedure progressing? The worst part?

Communication

Picis

AUGUST 26, 2024

By fostering seamless communication and collaboration, HIE facilitates the timely exchange of crucial information between healthcare entities. In an era where effective healthcare hinges on collaborative efforts, the HIE emerges as a cornerstone for enhancing care coordination and patient outcomes within the U.S. healthcare system.

Communication

Picis

JANUARY 15, 2024

In high-intensity environments such as the perioperative setting, where both stakes and complexities are high, excellent communication stands out as a necessity for efficiency and enhanced collaboration. A minor oversight can potentially contribute to complications in an otherwise straightforward procedure.

Communication

SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) A cardiovascular perfusionist plays a crucial role in cardiac surgery, ensuring that a patient’s heart and lungs continue to function during procedures like open-heart surgery. During Surgery : Once the surgery begins, the perfusionist monitors and controls the heart-lung machine.

Vital Signs

SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I chose this role because it’s a way to make a difference in surgery that truly can help patients get back to their day-to-day lives since we specialize in minimally invasive procedures,” says Austin. “I The operating room is no stranger to me and is a place I enjoy spending my time for work.”

Operating Room

Somnia

MAY 1, 2024

Anesthesia must collaborate proactively with surgical services to optimize patient conditions through appropriate preoperative testing and the formulation of tailored anesthetic care plans. This collaborative approach fosters an environment where patient care takes precedence over arbitrary constraints.

Anesthesia

BFW Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Modern surgery advancements have allowed surgeons to be more accurate during procedures, and reduce risks and recovery time for patients. According to a recent study from JAMA Network Open, the use of robotic surgery alone for general surgery procedures increased from 1.8% in 2012 to 15.1% in 2012 to 15.1%

Surgery

Symmetry Surgical

AUGUST 2, 2022

Necessity Led to Creativity In 1964, Dr. Bookwalter fell asleep in an operating room while holding a retractor during an emergency operation. One day in the OR, with only one bar available, he secured the ring with the remaining bar with the hope his ring would remain stable throughout the procedure.

Surgery

Caresyntax

JULY 14, 2024

Innovation and Technology in Surgery : How data-driven insights can enhance surgical outcomes and operational efficiency. Innovation and Technology in Surgery : How data-driven insights can enhance surgical outcomes and operational efficiency. Challenges in Surgical Care : The need for better data management and integration in surgery.

Collaboration