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.

Surgical First Assistant

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

JANUARY 9, 2025

In the fast-paced world of surgery, efficiency isnt just a luxuryits a necessity. Providing expert assistance during surgery : Their expertise reduces delays, ensuring surgeries proceed seamlessly. Their involvement ensures fewer disruptions, leading to smoother operations. Why Choose a Staffing Agency?

Surgical Assistant

ARC/STSA

JUNE 20, 2025

The operating room is inherently a team-based environment, where effective communication, collaboration and mutual trust are crucial. Through enhanced clinical skills, improved confidence, better communication and teamwork, peer mentorship provides a foundation for future success in the operating room. Norman, G.

Collaboration

SpecialtyCare

JULY 27, 2025

Table of Contents Maximizing Sterile Processing Department Efficiency: The Foundation of Surgical Success The Impact of SPD Efficiency on Hospital Operations Critical Areas Affecting Sterile Processing Department Efficiency 7 Proven Strategies to Improve Sterile Processing Department Efficiency 1. Implement Lean Six Sigma Methodology 2.

Sterile

SpecialtyCare

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

These surgeries often involve the heart, lungs, esophagus, and other organs within the chest cavity. Their expertise ensures that surgeries are performed efficiently, safely, and with the highest level of precision. Their expertise ensures that surgeries are performed efficiently, safely, and with the highest level of precision.

Surgical First Assistant

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.

Sterile

SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Professionals in this field are responsible for: Preparation and Maintenance of Equipment: Setting up, troubleshooting, and maintaining all minimally invasive equipment, including video systems and viewing towers, before, during, and after surgeries. Staying updated with the latest developments and continuing education is essential.

Operating Room

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.

Operating Room

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.

OR Manager

The Circulating Life

JULY 16, 2025

The operating room is a fast-paced, high-stakes environment where precision, teamwork, and vigilance are non-negotiable. And eventually, the long hours, high-stakes decision-making, constant vigilance, and the physical demands of surgery all add up and we’re just done. 4 But what about operating room nurses specifically?

Nurse

Caresyntax

AUGUST 5, 2025

1 Health providers have invested in a wealth of new tech to make surgery safer and smarter, but without the personnel needed to make use of it, the return on these advancements is limited. When surgical operating rooms (ORs) are underutilized, revenue potential decreases along with the ability to provide surgical care.

Operating Room

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. Ideally, a surgical plan should begin when a patient is first identified as needing surgery and continue until fully recovered from surgery.

Hospital

OR Manager

JULY 23, 2025

Editor’s Note: This page is a companion piece to the main article, Proper planning prevents OR construction, renovation cost creep.

Safety

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. Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) is a real-time monitoring technique that helps protect a patients nervous system during surgery.

Hospital

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.” and often working past midnight.

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

Surgical Assistant

The CRNA Chase

JULY 17, 2020

Of course, my background includes being a surgical technician and PACU (post operative care unit) nurse so finding a CRNA to shadow was pretty easy. But I personally chose to shadow a CRNA for 40 hours total even though I worked in the operating room prior. And many operating rooms have a no cell phone policy anyway.

CRNA

Neurosurgery

JUNE 26, 2025

His career was shaped by his neurosurgical training at Thomas Jefferson University, where he developed a passion for cerebrovascular surgery under the guidance of Dr. William Buchheit. 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

LiveData

AUGUST 4, 2025

As an orthopedic surgeon with over 25 years of experience, I am now in a position to pick where I want to work. I find myself choosing hospitals that use LiveData when I decide where to go. Reliable workflows matter to me, in and out of the OR.

Hospital

The Stitch

AUGUST 1, 2025

When we think about cataract care, we often jump straight to surgery. In many parts of the world, age-related cataract, the clouding of the lens The post Finding cataracts: The work starts before the operating room appeared first on Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network.

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.”

Operating Room

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.

Operating Room

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.

Communication

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.

Vital Signs

Picis

JULY 16, 2025

In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, operational efficiency and superior patient outcomes are essential. The Picis Partner Program offers companies the opportunity to become resellers of our cutting-edge perioperative and critical care solutions , empowering healthcare institutions to improve performance and operate more effectively.

Operating Room

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.

Operating Room

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.

Operating Room

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. Unveiled at NVIDIA GTC , the global AI conference taking place March 18-21 in San Jose, Calif.,

Operating Room

RNnetwork: Operating Room

JUNE 16, 2015

If you crave being on the front lines of patient care, consider becoming an operating room nurse. OR nursing (also known as perioperative nursing) involves caring for patients before, during and after surgery. The post Travel Nursing: Operating Room (OR) appeared first on RNnetwork - Travel Nursing Blog.

Operating Room

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.

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. Disorganized operating room layouts.

Operating Room

USMD Health System

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Many types of procedures can be performed in a hybrid operating room, including minimally invasive treatment. Discover your options for surgery today.

Operating Room

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. Being surgery-ready has never been this fast and we want you to see it first-hand. Maximize yours with the SLD AirFRAME.

Operating Room

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Operating Room (OR) nurses, also known as perioperative nurses, play an essential role in surgeries. OR nurses are the backbone of the operating room, advocating for patients and supporting the entire surgical team. The post What is an OR Nurse and What Do They Do in the Operating Room? and Virginia.

Operating Room

walkerproject

JANUARY 20, 2021

Melcher , Senior Medical Expert walkerproject ag, specialist in surgery, focus on visceral surgery, general and trauma surgery. The operating room area is confronted with a variety of challenges in everyday life. In addition, the influence of hospital administration on this platform is also increasingly visible.

Operating Room

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. 1] Arora et al. Arora et al.

Operating Room

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

AUGUST 31, 2024

In the fast-paced world of surgery, where precision and efficiency are paramount, surgical assistants play a vital yet often overlooked role. Whether at leading healthcare facilities like USPI and SCA Surgery Centers, or local hospitals across Maryland, D.C., and Virginia, these professionals are the backbone of the operating room.

Operating Room