Rapid Operating Room Turnover
Improving Surgeons’ Personal Productivity By Surgery Management Improvement Group What do we mean by “Turnaround” Time? For Nurses, Turnaround Time usually means from one patient leaving the Operating Room to…
Five-Second Rule Validated in the Operating Room
By Skelepuns Disclaimer: This post is from GomerBlog, a satirical site about healthcare. CHICAGO – In a paradigm shift for the operating room, a new study has found that reusing…
Difference Between Scrub Nurse & Circulating Nurse
Scrub nurses and circulating nurses are involved with the medical care of patients during operations. The nature of their duties differs, however. Read on to learn more about how these…
Severe allergic reactions in surgery ’caused by antibiotics’
Antibiotics are the main cause of life-threatening allergic reactions during surgery, a new report suggests. The Royal College of Anaesthetists says more patients are claiming to be allergic to penicillin,…
Doctor battered by ex-patient’s son after he burst into surgery saying she ‘failed to diagnose late dad’s motor neurone disease’
Dr Victoria Hunter was treating a patient when Steven Cook, 41, barged in By Rob Pattinson A SON who believed his late dad was misdiagnosed burst into a surgery and…
NHS surgeon hid his HIV status sparking nationwide alert
By Steve Bird An NHS surgeon who kept his HIV infection secret because he feared he would be stigmatised triggered a nationwide search for people he may have contaminated, a…
‘Black box’ recorder tracks surgical skills in the operating room
Keck Medicine of USC researchers develop a tool that separates the novice from the knowledgeable By Erica Rheinschild Has your doctor mastered the latest minimally invasive technology for surgery? To…
Dimpleplasty: Increasing Number of Millenials Having Cosmetic Surgery to Create Dimples
But it’ll cost you a pretty penny. By Rachel Hosie If you thought stick-on freckles were bad enough, brace yourself: the latest way people are changing their natural facial features…
My Jail Is Safer than Your ER
—Surprised? Don’t be By Jeffrey E. Keller, MD How safe is correctional medicine? People naturally assume that working in a jail or prison is dangerous. “Aren’t you nervous about working…
She dreamed of getting plastic surgery in Miami. Three days later, she was dead.
BY SARAH BLASKEY, SONIA OSORIO AND DANIEL CHANG For Adianet Galván Gonzáles and her circle of family and friends, the popular surgical procedure known as a Brazilian butt lift was…
I’m a surgeon who operated on a man who had just committed a horrific murder — here’s how I control my emotions during surgery
By Paul A. Ruggieri In his book, surgeon Paul A. Ruggieri recounts an occasion in which he was called into surgery to urgently operate on a man who had just…
Ergonomic and Proper Handling of Surgical Instruments
By Szczepan Baran, VMD, Elizabeth Johnson, VMD and Marcel Perret-Gentil, DVM Although not always recognized, proper handling of surgical instruments plays a vital role in positive surgical patient outcomes. Correct…
10 Signs the Hospital Wants to Discharge You Too Early—and How to Fight It
Everyone wants to get you home safe and keep you healthy, but sometimes going home is a bad option.It’s in the medical team’s best interest to discharge you when you’re…
World’s First Head Transplant Volunteer Could Experience Something “Worse Than Death”
“I would not wish this on anyone,” says top surgeon. In April, 2015, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head…
Shock as Queen admitted to hospital for surgery
THE Queen has undergone an operation on her eye at hospital, it has been revealed. Her Maj has had eye surgery to remove a cataract, Buckingham Palace confirmed this afternoon.…
How Profiteers Coax Women Into Often-Unneeded Surgery
By Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Jerri Plummer was at home in Arkansas, watching television with her three children, when a stranger called to warn that her life was in…
A Military Surgeon in Waiting
By Steve Sternberg Army surgeon Maj. Monique Hassan’s life was an adventure. All that was missing was the surgery. MAJ. MONIQUE HASSAN’S stint as an Army surgeon was a halting…
An Operating Room Nurse Confirms That Yes, Many Surgeons Are Assholes
“Once I had a surgeon throw a suture needle at me because I set it up for a righty, and it turned out he was a lefty.” I’m an operating…