Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

JUNE 23, 2025

Maintaining normothermia (normal body temperature) throughout the perioperative period is a critical component of patient safety and recovery. Perioperative hypothermia, defined as a core body temperature below 36°C, is a frequent and preventable complication associated with anesthesia and surgical procedures. Hypothermia can result in a range of adverse outcomes, including increased risk of surgical site infections, coagulopathy, prolonged hospitalization, and delayed wound healing (1).

Operation

Caresyntax

JUNE 23, 2025

By Dr. Bruce Ramshaw, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Caresyntax As the robotics community gathers for the 2025 Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS) annual meeting , the conversation is maturing. We’ve moved from asking “what’s possible?” to “where’s the value?” This two-part series explores that question—starting with today’s reality: despite rapid innovation, the robotic surgery space faces a critical evidence gap.

Surgery

AAS

JUNE 23, 2025

Ethics Committee Cover Art Entry – Clinical photo from 2021 that illustrates the thankless aspects of surgery, the gifted hands that contribute to surgery through retraction and positioning. Photo captured during a minimally-invasive open arthroplasty of a temporomandibular joint prosthesis. The post Many Hands for Minimally-Invasive Surgery appeared first on Association for Academic Surgery (AAS).

Surgery

Association of Women Surgeons

JUNE 23, 2025

by Anthony Tannous, MD, FACS This is a special edition blog post presented in partnership with the Association of Out Surgeons and Allies in celebration of Pride Month. June bursts forth in a riot of color, a seemingly utopian vision of equality and dignity, often accompanied by a healthy dose of corporate branding. Around the… The post Beyond the Banners: The Quiet Cost of Pride first appeared on Association of Women Surgeons Blog.

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

JUNE 23, 2025

Podcast #11, S1 How Risk Calculators Reflect Today's Thoracic Care In this episode of Thinking Thoracic , hear from Christopher Seder, MD, professor of surgery and chief of the thoracic surgery division at Rush University, and Robert Habib, vice president of research and analytics at STS, about the development of the Society’s short-term risk calculators for pulmonary resection and esophagectomy , powered by the General Thoracic Surgery Database with more than 800,000 patient records.

Surgery

Association of Women Surgeons

JUNE 23, 2025

by Anthony Tannous, MD, FACS This is a special edition blog post presented in partnership with the Association of Out … Continue reading "Beyond the Banners: The Quiet Cost of Pride"

Surgery