Anaesthesia News

MAY 3, 2024

INTRODUCTION: The importance of functional right ventricular failure and resultant splanchnic venous congestion has long been under-appreciated and is difficult to assess by traditional physical examination and standard diagnostic imaging. The recent development of the venous excess ultrasound score (VExUS) and growth of point-of-care ultrasound in the last decade has made for a potentially very useful clinical tool.

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Neurosurgery

APRIL 25, 2024

Our current series on Making and Maintaining a Neurosurgeon discusses how one transitions from student to resident to practicing neurosurgeon. This cross-post highlights the second chapter after practicing neurosurgery. Eleven years ago, Julie G. Pilitsis , MD, PhD, FAANS, set a goal to become a dean for a college of medicine. To achieve this goal, Dr.

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The Stitch

MARCH 29, 2024

In March, Dr. Kenneth K. Liao achieved a significant milestone by completing his 600th robotic heart surgery. The post Heart surgeon surpasses 600 robotic heart surgeries appeared first on Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2024

“This year, every industry will become a technology industry,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees Wednesday during the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. “You can now recognize and learn the language of almost anything with structure, and you can translate it to anything with structure — so text-protein, protein-text,” Huang said in a fireside chat with Martin Chavez, partner and vice chairman of global investment firm Sixth Street Partners and board chair of Recursion, a

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Incredible Health

MARCH 14, 2024

The post Celebrating Milestones and Inspiring Change: Insights from Incredible Health’s Fifth Annual State of US Nursing Report appeared first on Incredible Health.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

“At any moment, in a matter of seconds, I could have a sickle cell crisis,” writes Indiana University School of Medicine clinical pathology resident Halimat Olaniyan, MD, in her book, “ Breaking the Cycle of Pain, Short Stories on Living with Sickle Cell.” “As the crescent-shaped red blood cells coursing through my veins turn on me,” she continues, “they stick together and block the flow of blood in my body.

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SpecialtyCare

MAY 16, 2024

“I Want to Help Save Lives” An individual can have many reasons to choose a healthcare career. Perhaps it is a family legacy, or a parental expectation that we decide to honor. Maybe it is a calling into a particular field of medicine – like obstetrics because we love babies, or geriatrics because we see the changing needs of our grandparents as they age.

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LeanBlog

MAY 3, 2024

Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly from Ryan via email. News, articles, books, podcasts, and videos about how to make the workplace better. Operational Excellence, Improvement, and Innovation Danaher: Masterful Capital Allocation and Lean Manufacturing Combined Danaher is revered as one of the true lean success stories in North America over the last 40 years – and […] The p

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Nebraska Methodist College

MAY 14, 2024

As you begin your nursing education , you may wonder how balancing life and nursing school is going to work. You, like many students, may plan on working part- or full-time during college. Balancing your personal and professional life while finding time to study can be a challenge. At Nebraska Methodist College (NMC), faculty and staff encourage student success and provide the tools they need to achieve their goals.

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CME Corp

MAY 14, 2024

It’s a scene that clinicians and healthcare professionals know all too well: a busy floor experiencing staff shortages, training new team members, meeting the diverse needs of patients while trying to maintain consistent SOPs and accurate documentation… and then an auditor from The Joint Commission (TJC) walks in for a survey… In an environment in which the time and attention of each clinician is at a premium, while competing priorities pull them constantly in different directions, an automated

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Surgical Information Systems

APRIL 24, 2024

Surgical Information Systems Wins 2024 Top Workplaces Cultural Excellence Awards for Innovation, Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits, Leadership, and Purpose & Values

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Neurosurgery

APRIL 12, 2024

As neurosurgeons, continuous improvement is essential to our growth. Self-reflection and self-improvement are core tenets instilled in us throughout training. During residency, this is built into our education, with discussions of quality, service and opportunities for improvement at the forefront. But what about after residency? As we transition, we continue to refine what we do and how we practice, often adding new techniques to our repertoires.

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The Stitch

MAY 7, 2024

SARS-CoV-2 takes advantage of powerful biological mechanisms that allow it to evolve quickly, generating variants to adapt to and persevere in human populations. The post A mechanism influencing the generation of new COVID variants appeared first on Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

JANUARY 8, 2024

In perhaps the healthcare industry’s most dramatic transformation since the advent of computing, digital biology and generative AI are helping to reinvent drug discovery, surgery, medical imaging and wearable devices. NVIDIA has been preparing for this moment for over a decade, building deep domain expertise, creating the NVIDIA Clara healthcare-specific computing platform and expanding its work with a rich ecosystem of partners.

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Incredible Health

MARCH 14, 2024

Incredible Health reaches 1 million nurses and 1500 hospitals, making it the largest career marketplace for nurses in the United States.

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MEDITEK

MARCH 18, 2024

[Photo source: Technical.ly.] Sometimes it’s the simplest detail missed that can cause the greatest amount of trouble! With so many things happening at once in even the most general OR sessions, the furthest thing from anyone’s focus is the cord which supplies power to the OR table — the central piece of equipment supporting the entire procedure.

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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

APRIL 25, 2024

Webinar Latin Heart Rounds: Rounds on a Patient with Prosthetic Aortic Endocarditis cgolden Thu, 04/25/2024 - 14:46 May 31, 2024 Webinar Link: Register for Free An international panel of experts will provide up-to-date insight on the management of patients with prosthetic aortic endocarditis. The discussion is based on a real patient presented by an early career surgeon.

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Triage Staffing

MAY 1, 2024

Where do the helpers go when they need help themselves? If you travel with Triage, you can use Mutual of Omaha’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP). The EAP is a confidential program dedicated to supporting the emotional health and well-being of our employees and their families. There’s no cost and you do not need to be enrolled in the medical plan to take advantage of the EAP.

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LeanBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

It's interesting to observe a hospital process (or lack thereof) when a family member needs surgery. I had the opportunity to do so one day last week. I originally shared this on LinkedIn as a post and real-time updates. Thankfully, the clinical care seemed to be good, and that family member is recovering well from the outpatient procedure. But, the experience could have been better.

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Nebraska Methodist College

APRIL 12, 2024

Changing your career path can be intimidating. But choosing an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program can give you the confidence you need as you embark on a new career.

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CME Corp

MAY 7, 2024

Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) play a pivotal role in delivering efficient and specialized care within the larger healthcare landscape. With this in mind, ASCs are looking to increase the number of high acuity, high reimbursement procedures - like cardiac and orthopedic - to their centers. Adding to the growth potential, Center’s for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has unexpectedly started expanding the ASC-covered procedures list.

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Surgical Information Systems

MAY 3, 2024

Surgical Information Systems (SIS) shares their takeaways from the ASCA 2024 Conference including the results of their Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Technology Survey.

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Neurosurgery

APRIL 18, 2024

During my residency training at the University of Pennsylvania, M. Sean Grady , MD, FAANS, repeatedly counseled that residency is intended to teach us how to incorporate innovations in neurosurgery into our practice. Then, we can keep up with the pace of research and technology and, thus, always offer our patients the cutting-edge. My first year out of training was at Stanford University, and I was asked to take on a neurosurgical leadership role in the transcranial focused ultrasound program.

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The Stitch

MARCH 19, 2024

The research warrants continuing investigations to translate the findings into a novel, more effective and longer-lasting cancer therapy. The post Baylor researchers awarded the National Academy of Sciences 2023 Cozzarelli Prize in Biomedical Sciences appeared first on Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

JANUARY 8, 2024

Generative AI is transforming drug research and development, enabling new discoveries faster than ever — and Amgen, one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, is tapping the technology to power its research. Amgen will build AI models trained to analyze one of the world’s largest human datasets on an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD , a full-stack data center platform, that will be installed at Amgen’s deCODE genetics’ headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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NexGen Surgical

APRIL 19, 2024

In surgical practice, the need for professional commitments and personal well-being is essential. Surgeons face challenges while navigating the demands of their careers and seeking fulfillment in their personal lives. Striking this balance is vital for sustained excellence in both spheres. For surgeons experiencing work-life balance challenges and seeking a more fulfilling career in a […] The post Personal and Professional Fulfillment in Surgery appeared first on NexGen Surgical.

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Pima Medical Institute

APRIL 5, 2024

Gregory Hvizdak and his brother were in search of rewarding careers, not just jobs. They moved to Seattle, and after Hvizdak’s brother completed a program with Pima Medical Institute, he started on his own journey by starting the Dental Assistant certificate program. He’s now on his way to advancing his current career with his sights set on dental hygiene.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

APRIL 1, 2024

Avian influenza (“bird flu,” informally) is a disease caused by the Type A influenza virus, which has adapted to target birds but can also infect other animals, including humans. Commonly transmitted through the eyes, respiratory tract, and gastrointestinal tract, the virus can pose problems to wild birds, poultry, and people when outbreaks occur. With several recorded outbreaks in recent history, avian influenza continues to be a salient public health risk.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

APRIL 1, 2024

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic agent, a medication that reduces bleeding by preventing the lysis of a blood clot. 1 Originally developed for patients with hemophilia undergoing oral surgery, TXA is now also administered to reduce heavy menstrual bleeding, treat trauma patients at risk for hemorrhage, and to preoperatively minimize the need for blood transfusions during surgery. 2 TXA is an analog of the amino acid lysine and it functions by blocking the conversion of plasminogen to

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LeanBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly from Ryan via email. News, articles, books, podcasts, and videos about how to make the workplace better. Operational Excellence, Improvement, and Innovation Whose Chatbot is it anyway? In a March mixtape, I posted an article about the comical defence by Air Canada when they sought to shirk responsibility for bad advice given […] The post Ryan Mc

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Radius Anesthesia

MARCH 25, 2024

Lidocaine is an amide local anesthetic commonly used for local or topical anesthesia. As with other local anesthetics, lidocaine’s mechanism of action occurs at sodium ion channels on the internal surface of the plasma membranes of neurons. By ionizing via the hydrogen ions present in the axoplasm, the initially uncharged molecule becomes a cation that can bind reversibly to the sodium channels while they are in their “open” state, preventing depolarization and, consequently, signaling.

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CME Corp

APRIL 24, 2024

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the need for accurate physical examinations does not change. Physical examinations often include a variety of measurements essential for medical treatment decisions and protocols. Of these, weight measurement is one of the most critical. However, traditional weighing methods are manual processes that can lead to inaccuracies.

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Surgical Information Systems

MARCH 28, 2024

Interoperability can help ambulatory surgery centers leverage all of their technology solutions at their ASC and outside, including physician's offices, laboratories, and more.

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Neurosurgery

MARCH 6, 2024

There is nothing more important to a neurosurgeon than patient safety. We strive daily to provide the right care to the right patient at the right time and place in the best possible way. Beyond each individual encounter, achieving this requires constant assessment and reassessment of all aspects of care delivery — a process called quality improvement.

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The Stitch

MARCH 15, 2024

Today, fourth-year medical students at Baylor College of Medicine learned where they will go after graduation for their residency training. The post Celebrating Match Day 2024 appeared first on Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2024

Hip disorders, comprising some of the world’s most common joint diseases, are especially prevalent among adolescents and young adults, causing stiffness, pain or a limp. But they can be hard to diagnose using solely 2D medical imaging. Helping to treat these disorders, the Boston Children’s Hospital’s (BCH’s) Adolescent and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program is the U.S.’s first to deploy a fully automated AI tool across its clinic.

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 24, 2024

Cancer incidence is on the rise, and the American Cancer Society forecasts that there will be a staggering 2 million new cancer diagnoses in 2024. The risk of dying from cancer, however, has steadily declined over the past 30 years. This decline can be attributed to many things, but advancements in cancer treatments are certainly a factor. Stages of HIPEC One of those treatment advances, used for the first time in 1980, is hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC).

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