SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Role and Responsibilities of a Surgical First Assistant SFAs are integral to the surgical process, performing tasks that include: Preoperative Preparation : They prepare the operating room by ensuring all necessary instruments and equipment are sterilized and arranged according to the surgeon’s preferences.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

JANUARY 9, 2025

Their involvement ensures fewer disruptions, leading to smoother operations. Help optimize the use of operating room space and equipment. Providing expert assistance during surgery : Their expertise reduces delays, ensuring surgeries proceed seamlessly. Reduce wait times for patients by improving scheduling efficiency.

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SpecialtyCare

JUNE 28, 2025

At SpecialtyCare, we’ve implemented SPD best practices across hundreds of healthcare facilities, and we’ve seen firsthand how adherence to these standards dramatically improves patient safety, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

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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). Handling and passing surgical instruments to the surgeon.

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Picis

JUNE 19, 2025

Operational efficiency is paramount in operating rooms (ORs), where every second counts and resources must be optimized to ensure the best possible patient outcomes. Enter OR Manager – a comprehensive solution designed to enhance productivity and streamline operations in OR settings.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Assisting Surgical Teams: Providing direct support to surgeons and operating room staff by ensuring that all necessary instruments and equipment are available and functioning correctly. Ensuring Sterility and Safety: Upholding strict sterilization protocols to prevent infections and maintain a safe surgical environment.

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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. 4 But what about operating room nurses specifically? This is a recipe for disaster in the operating room. of people leaving their jobs or intending to leave their job.

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AAS

JUNE 17, 2025

A career as an academic surgeon offers unparalleled rewards: the privilege of transforming patient lives in the operating room, the thrill of pioneering research discoveries, and the satisfaction of mentoring the next generation of surgical leaders. Yet the journey rarely follows a straight line.

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The Surgical Tech Student

JUNE 5, 2025

It can be hard at times to be confident in yourself in the operating room. I keep saying that with my anxiety & my introverted & quiet personality that I cannot believe I ended up in the operating room, but I honestly love it & can’t imagine not doing it. I would rather be quiet & move on.

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Somnia

JULY 7, 2025

Surgical care remains one of the most significant drivers of overall hospital cost—yet the medical readiness of complex surgical patients is often overlooked in financial and operational planning. Moreover, these unrecognized or underrecognized secondary diagnoses reduce operating room efficiency by leading to cause delays and cancellations.

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 15, 2025

From sterile processing and perfusion services to intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) and surgical assistants, hospital surgical support teams are the unsung heroes behind every successful operation. Lowers the likelihood of post-operative complications related to neurological function. Why Is Perfusion Critical?

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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 also conduct regular audits and staff training to maintain compliance and operational excellence.

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Incredible Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Surgical techs play a vital role in the operating room, ensuring things run safely and smoothly from start to finish. To help you prepare, weve compiled […] The post Most Common Surgical Technician Interview Questions (And How to Answer Them) appeared first on Incredible Health.

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ARC/STSA

JANUARY 16, 2025

ARC/STSA educators play a crucial role in shaping the next generation of surgical technologists and surgical assistants, ensuring they are prepared to meet the demands of the operating room and advocating for their patients.

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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. Importantly, Chris had significant influence outside the operating room. We were his trainees (BB) and junior partners (BB and JR).

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ARC/STSA

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Over the last two years, ARC/STSA has participated in many of the discussions between the education and healthcare communities on how to facilitate educational partnerships and increase the number of fully educated surgical technologists and surgical assistants in operating rooms across the country.

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Caresyntax

JULY 15, 2025

His deep knowledge of our customers and ability to scale complex organizations will be essential as Caresyntax advances its mission to make surgery safer, smarter, and more connected.” As Caresyntax President, Krueger led the company’s expansion to over 4,200 operating rooms globally and helped secure major hospital and technology partnerships.

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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 8, 2025

Anesthesiologists watch vital sign monitors continuously in the operating room every day, and have more experience following vital sign abnormalities minute-to-minute than other physicians. The blood oxygen level, or oxygen saturation level, is equivalent to what a pulse oximeter measures in the operating room.

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LiveData

JULY 7, 2023

Relying on time-consuming data entry by busy operating room (OR) staff, EHR systems alone simply cannot capture and share the level of information that surgical departments need to keep things running smoothly. Systems for managing electronic hospital records (EHR) are critical for recording, storing, and protecting patient data.

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CME Corp

AUGUST 28, 2024

Equipping an operating room (OR), whether in a hospital or ambulatory surgery center, requires careful planning and a thorough understanding of the essential equipment needed.

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LeanBlog

MAY 20, 2024

I've never seen a sign like this in an operating room. … […] The post Preventing Surgical Errors: Effective Strategies Over Warning Signs in Operating Rooms by Mark Graban appeared first at Lean Blog. This is a Chat GPT / Dall-E generated image: It's silly, right? And I'm not advocating for them.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

OCTOBER 12, 2021

[link] Efficient Case Scheduling - Secret to a Well-Run OR Operating room costs can be categorized as fixed or variable. Variable costs are largely driven by caseload and associated labor costs that occur outside of normal operational hours. Shortening the time only leads to added stress, impacting both patient and staff safety.

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LeanBlog

JULY 26, 2024

News, articles, books, podcasts, and videos about how to make the workplace better.

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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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CaseCTRL

JULY 2, 2024

Efficient operating room (OR) management is crucial in today’s healthcare environment, where the costs associated with running an operating room can range from $30 to $100 per minute. One of the most effective ways to improve OR efficiency is by leveraging advanced surgery scheduling software.

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ADLINK Technology

JULY 27, 2020

A look at how technological innovation has changed the OR as we know it today When a surgical team enters an operating room in 2020 to provide a patient with life-saving care, they follow streamlined, data-based processes supported by advanced technologies. But it hasn’t been that way for most of history. Take a look at […]>

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MEDITEK

JULY 23, 2024

Visible Light Disinfection (VLD) is an LED lighting technology that safely and continuously disinfects an operating room at a much more effective rate than current environmental disinfection methods. VLD is safe, effective, and requires no special clinician training or consumables to operate. Let us elaborate.

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MEDITEK

JULY 23, 2024

Indigo-Clean is an LED lighting technology that safely and continuously disinfects an operating room at a much more effective rate than current environmental disinfection methods. Indigo-Clean is safe, effective, and requires no special clinician training or consumables to operate. Let us elaborate. appeared first on MEDITEK.

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MEDITEK

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These fully integrated, modular, prefabricated ceiling systems are the packaged solution that will have your operating room surgery-ready in a fraction of the time than traditional systems demanded. We’ve been involved with operating room ceiling system installations within general and complex hybrid ORs across Canada.

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walkerproject

JANUARY 20, 2021

The operating room area is confronted with a variety of challenges in everyday life. Originally controlled primarily by the surgeon, the operating room has become a service platform run by many professional groups. The operating room management/coordination is responsible for the day-to-day management and coordination.

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Bender

JANUARY 24, 2020

This states operating rooms are considered to be a wet procedure location unless a risk assessment conducted by the health care governing body determines otherwise. This means that unless a risk assessment is conducted, then operating rooms are considered to be wet procedure locations by default.

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CME Corp

APRIL 16, 2024

When you think of operating rooms stainless steel is most likely the first thing that comes to mind. In fact, it is hard to imagine an operating room equipped with anything other than stainless steel. Stainless steel cabinets are an indispensable component in healthcare environments, particularly in operating rooms.

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The Circulating Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Since we’re celebrating this week, here are 12 reasons why I love working in the operating room. 1 – Scrub Caps Scrub caps serve a valid purpose in the operating room, for sure. 5 – Scrubbing I wasn’t taught to scrub when I started in the operating room. We get to see and do SO MUCH!

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

JANUARY 8, 2024

Many factors affect the operating room (OR) and surgery success, ranging from patient-related factors to resource-related factors to even clinician-related factors. In the operating room (OR), teamwork is crucial for ensuring patient safety. The American Journal of Surgery, vol. 24–30, [link] 2. Arora, Sonal, et al.

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