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NHS/Royal Derby Hospital A hospital trust has become the first in the UK to introduce disposable sterile hijabs for staff. The Royal Derby Hospital launched the headscarves earlier this month…
For a split second, the ER is totally silent.All eyes – and there are a lot of them: nurses, doctors, techs, an EMT standing just off to the side –…
I’m Interested In The Surgeon’s Ego… Social sciences fascinate me. Social psychology, influence, compliance gaining, emotional intelligence, interpersonal dynamics, how to lead change…all of these topics run rampant in our…
The Osia system bypasses the damaged parts of the ear and then sends vibrations through the bone to the cochlea. Australia-based Cochlear has received clearance from the US Food and…
Adult ALS includes advanced interventions after basic life support has started and when appropriate an AED has been used. The transition between basic and advanced life support should be seamless…
Halo-gravity traction is a way to pull the head and spine upward carefully, applying a slow stretch to the spine. Doctors do this by attaching a halo (a metal ring…
The point of surgical procedures is to save or improve the quality of our lives, but things can and do go wrong because of system or human errors. In too…
Surgeons have removed a kidney weighing 7.4 kilograms (16.3 pounds) — the equivalent size of two newborn babies — from a patient in India. It is thought to be the…
A patient at a southern New Jersey hospital inadvertently got a transplanted kidney that was intended for another patient, officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday. The 51-year-old patient was on the…
The president of Massachusetts General Hospital has long insisted that it was perfectly safe for some surgeons to oversee two operations at the same time. Dr. Peter Slavin told the…
Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup said Sunday it is canceling more than 140 elective surgeries this week after discovering flecks of plastic on some surgical trays. KIRO 7 reached out…
Kalan, M.D., (left) and Darrell Cass, M.D., (right) perform in utero spina bifida surgery. Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida…
Robotic surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery. “Minimally invasive” means that instead of operating on patients through large incisions, we use miniaturized surgical instruments that fit through a…
TORONTO — More than 550 objects have been unintentionally left in Canadian medical and surgery patients between 2016 and 2018, and the problem appears to be getting worse. A new…
Over a year since the history-making operation, the recipient of the world’s first total penis and scrotum transplant – an injured veteran of the US Armed Forces – is “feeling…
Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to successfully perform a robotic single-port kidney transplant, which enables all surgical instruments and the donor kidney to be placed through…
You have to get used to being invisible as an anaesthetist. A large percentage of the public has no idea that we’re medically qualified. I’ve been asked how many GCSEs…
A specialist surgeon is someone who focuses on a particular field of medicine such as cardiology, neurology, or another specific medical field. All specialist doctors have many years of education…
Sterile Processing Department The Sterile Processing Department (SPD), also known as the Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD), is the area in a hospital where cleaning and sterilization of devices used…
A young woman’s life could have been saved if she had had urgent surgery more quickly, a coroner has ruled. Arohaina Gilbert, 25, died within hours of being rushed to…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a type of scan that uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the body. An MRI scanner…
Building a new operating room is a complex process that involves balancing needs of facility staff with construction costs, while also looking forward to future healthcare trends. To make planning…
In this variation of the prone position, the patient’s head and feet are both lower than the hips. The jackknife position is used most frequently for proctologic procedures. It is…
What is a surgical wound? A surgical wound is a cut or incision in the skin that is usually made by a scalpel during surgery. A surgical wound can also…
17,900,000 people die every yearfrom CVD, including heart disease and stroke This year on World Heart Day, as part of our mission to ensure heart health equity for all, we…
Interventional radiology is a rapidly growing area of medicine. Interventional radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments performed using imaging guidance. Interventional radiology procedures are an advance…
Automating Processes with One Click. Patient work, not Paperwork A cloud based solution that offers true seamless collaboration between vendors and hospitals with specific focus on high value surgeries. Delivered…
Surgery is used to prevent, diagnose, stage, and treat cancer. Surgery can also relieve (palliate) discomfort or problems related to cancer. Sometimes, one surgery can take care of more than…
A carpenter who severed his hand with an electric saw, leaving it dangling from slivers of skin and bone, had it largely saved after surgeons temporarily reattached it to his…
Melbourne’s Austin Hospital has been forced to cancel 150 elective surgeries after a number of their medical washers broke down. In a statement, the hospital said it had realised there…
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