SpecialtyCare

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The CSFA is not just a passive participant in the operating room; they are an active collaborator who anticipates the surgeons needs, manages surgical instruments, and assists with critical tasks such as suturing, tissue manipulation, and hemostasis (control of bleeding). Managing bleeding and maintaining a clear surgical field.

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Caresyntax

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This includes integrated operating rooms, which provide digitally superior care to standard rooms, but are capable of doing so much more. Redefining Operational Efficiency For all the advancement integrated operating rooms brought to surgery, operational efficiency concerns remain consistent: Will our daily operations start on time?

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 15, 2025

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. The Importance of a Collaborative IONM Team SpecialtyCare is a team of passionate, driven people dedicated to making a difference in healthcare.

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 6, 2025

Operational Flow: Efficient reprocessing reduces instrument shortages and supports timely surgeries. Best Practices in Sterile Processing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Clear, documented protocols tailored to hospital devices and workflows. Frequently Asked Questions How often should sterile processing staff receive training?

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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. tructured communication ensures ongoing collaboration and problem-solving,” he says. “It

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The Circulating Life

JULY 16, 2025

The operating room is a fast-paced, high-stakes environment where precision, teamwork, and vigilance are non-negotiable. Safe surgical care demands seamless collaboration between surgeons, nurses, techs, and anesthesia providers, so that we can achieve excellent outcomes. 4 But what about operating room nurses specifically?

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SpecialtyCare

JANUARY 16, 2025

Enhancing Operational Efficiency Beyond clinical support, SpecialtyCares logistics and administrative services streamline the organ procurement process. They provide ongoing professional development for their clinicians and collaborate with OPOs to train medical staff on the latest protocols and technologies.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Neurosurgery

JUNE 26, 2025

He would show off the anatomy of a procedure to the entire operating room, explaining everything on the screen while mentoring the residents. Chris always made time to go over case plans with us and to join us in the operating room during the early years of our practice to provide support and technical assistance with challenging anatomy.

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OR Manager

JUNE 26, 2025

The ongoing turbulence in global trade policy, particularly the re-escalation of tariffs on medical supplies from China and other countries, is weighing heavily on US healthcare operations.

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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.”

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Picis

JULY 16, 2025

In today’s healthcare landscape, where operational efficiency and superior patient outcomes are paramount, organizations worldwide seek innovative solutions to meet these demands. These solutions drive better clinical outcomes and streamline perioperative processes, improving overall operational performance.

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SpecialtyCare

JUNE 21, 2025

Job Security and Growing Demand Meaningful Work with Direct Patient Impact Competitive Compensation and Benefits Diverse Work Environments Types of Career Opportunities in Sterile Processing Entry-Level Positions Mid-Level Career Opportunities Advanced Career Opportunities Career Opportunities in Sterile Processing at SpecialtyCare Comprehensive Training (..)

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LeanBlog

JULY 29, 2024

Let's take a moment to examine two different approaches to communicating a simple instruction regarding the operation of a centrifuge, as seen in the images below — pictures I took in a hospital laboratory I was working with 15 years ago or so.

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Anaesthesia News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Immediately communicate to the surgery team and the operating room (OR) staff that the patient’s status may be compromised. Ensure adequate oxygenation; increase the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) to 100% to improve oxygen saturation as measured by pulse oximetry (SpO2) 3. Decrease anesthetic depth 4.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Collaborating With Industry Leaders The Sanger Institute’s NVIDIA-accelerated sequencing lab can be considered an AI factory, where data comes in and intelligence comes out. This means that the Sanger Institute could, each year, save $1 million and 1,000 megawatt-hours by switching to using BWA with Parabricks on GPUs.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2024

Enhanced Safety and Security in the Public Sector Advancements in generative AI and natural language processing are poised to transform government operations and public services by enhancing decision-making, improving security, expanding access to information and driving transparency.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

All the electricity that powers NVIDIA’s global operations will come from renewable sources by the end of January. In collaboration with NVIDIA, we will bring accelerated computing, generative AI and Omniverse integration across the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.” 25 Climate Week event moderated by TIME magazine.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2024

Many businesses are turning to accelerated computing to integrate AI into their operations. The system operates within two milliseconds of latency to better protect customers and merchants, delivering a 50x improvement over a CPU-based configuration.

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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.

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CME Corp

MAY 21, 2024

In the fast-paced and dynamic landscape of healthcare, efficient delivery and installation of medical equipment is critical for ensuring the uninterrupted operation of healthcare facilities and safeguarding their ability to deliver quality patient care.

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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?

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The Anesthesia Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

That said, there remains work to be done to properly embrace multidisciplinary collaboration, eliminate ICU delirium and examine our outcome metrics and the support patients and their relatives are provided well beyond discharge from hospital. A former ICU patient, Catherine White, shares her perspectives following a critical illness in 2006.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

The Walther Cancer Foundation is pleased to see the successful collaboration between physicians and scientists at IU and Purdue as a part of the Walther Cancer Foundation Embedding Program,” Thomas W. Grein, president and CEO of the Walther Cancer Foundation, said.

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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. However, the impact surgical videos have on clinical performance, patient outcomes, and efficiency are invaluable.

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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.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Some NVIDIA experts in AI predict that 2024 will be all about phoning a friend — creating partnerships and collaborations with cloud service providers, data storage and analytical companies, and others with the know-how to handle, fine-tune and deploy big data efficiently. Large language models are at the center of it all.

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Clemson

MAY 28, 2022

The collaborative project, funded by a gift from Haworth through the Watt Family Innovation Center, explores preoperative and postoperative workspaces within complex ambulatory surgery centers (ASC).

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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.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

MAY 15, 2024

A collaboration between NVIDIA and academic researchers is prepping robots for surgery. ORBIT-Surgical — developed by researchers from the University of Toronto, UC Berkeley, ETH Zurich, Georgia Tech and NVIDIA — is a simulation framework to train robots that could augment the skills of surgical teams while reducing surgeons’ cognitive load.

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EARN Cares

MARCH 24, 2022

The operating room (OR) is a team based unit where patients undergo surgical procedures. The OR is a chilly fast-paced environment where nurses collaborate with scrub techs and anesthesia to help the surgical team perform safe and efficient surgery. Surgical nursing is unlike any other nursing specialty or unit.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

JUNE 2, 2024

NHRI’s collaboration with NVIDIA also extends to the development of large language models tailored specifically for Taiwan’s healthcare needs. CGMH, one of the largest healthcare systems in Taiwan, operates a network of 10 hospitals with a combined inpatient capacity of over 11,000 beds.

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Picis

APRIL 8, 2024

The key is finding the balance between optimizing operating room utilization and maintaining staff well-being. This unpredictability leads to a constantly changing schedule, which can result in either underutilized or overbooked operating rooms.

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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.

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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. Facilitating Team Collaboration Effective patient care is the result of synchronized efforts.

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