Incision

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Within a hospital, between 20 and 70% of this can be directly traced back to the operating department [ 2 , 3 ]. In 2015, a Johns Hopkins team reported that major hospitals across the US collectively throw away at least $15 million a year in unused surgical supplies [ 5 ]. Unfortunately, this is far from the case. million a year [ 7 ].

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To aid you in visualizing yourself in the hospital, I’m substituting the pronoun “you” instead of “I” in the narrative below. You complete your morning bathroom and breakfast routines, and leave your residence at 0630 hours for the hospital. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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Trocar Supplies

JUNE 6, 2022

Bartholomew’s Hospital, as well as in Continental Europe, before an appointment to the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest in London, where he developed a special interest in treating diseases of the kidneys. They offer a guaranteed-sharp tip and are also guaranteed sterile with no risk of cross contamination.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

He preps the right side of the patient’s neck with Betadine iodine soap, and drapes the right neck with sterile towels. Dr. A administers an IV dose of an intravenous antibiotic prior to the surgical incision, and also administers two IV antinausea drugs, ondansetron (Zofran) and metoclopropamide (Reglan) prophylactically.

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Incision

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These are words no Sterile Processing Manager wants to hear. These are two of the strongest and most ruthless enemies facing the Sterile Processing Professional. Visible and invisible bioburden left over from surgery must be removed through decontamination or the instrument cannot be properly sterilized.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. Upon arrival at the airport in the donor city, an ambulance transported us to the hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

As House of the Dragon depicted, in primitive times there was no way to stop the acute bleeding from Cesarean incisions into the abdomen and the uterus. Sterile surgical procedures began when Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, noted in 1847 that fewer women died from post-surgery fever if surgeons washed their hands.

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Caresyntax

MAY 27, 2025

Amsterdam, NL & Boston, MA May 28, 2025 Incision , provider of the innovative Incision Assist solution for perioperative teams, and Caresyntax , the leading enterprise-scale surgical data and analytics platform, today announced a partnership poised to transform operating room (OR) performance. Pilot implementations in select U.S.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

APRIL 7, 2025

Similarly, the surgical team must ensure that all required instruments and devices are sterile and ready for use. Delays in equipment availability or malfunctioning devices can significantly impact the start time, as can the need for additional preparation or sterilization of specific instruments 7,8. J Anesth 23 , 230234 (2009).

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The Surgical Tech Student

MARCH 16, 2025

A carotid endarterectomy is a procedure where the surgeon makes an incision along the neck and opens up the carotid artery to remove plaque or other debris blocking the blood flow. The CST will keep their setup sterile until notified that they can tear it down. (at at least that’s what we do at our hospital.

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