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Critically ill patients were having urgent, lifesaving operations when a leak in the floor above operating rooms sprung, sending water into the surgical suites. Surgeons halted one case while others…
Safe Surgery Together – Make plans to celebrate yourself, your team, and your profession. How to Celebrate with AORN Eat Cake with Your Team Plan a gathering with cake or…
Experts who were supposed to assist surgeons carrying out the first robotic heart valve operation of its kind in the UK left the hospital theatre before the procedure was finished…
A professor of surgery says students have spent so much time in front of screens and so little time using their hands that they have lost the dexterity for stitching…
By Helena Hutton As a young operating room nurse, a mentor of mine once asked me a very simple question: why do operating room nurses wear surgical masks? I was…
Maureen Pacheco, 53, of Florida, had suffered lower back pain for years after a car accident She went to Wellington Regional Medical Center to have lower back bones fused After…
“The Humble Technologist”- The Surgical Tech’s Creed was written to show the world how much more we do than just pass instruments and count sponges. We are the backbone of…
John Sarcona was at a baseball game when his mother Joanne found the bloodied T-shirts in his laundry hamper. His bedding was bloody too, and she knew something had gone…
Children in the hospital can now swap wheelchairs for four wheels and drive themselves to surgery in mini motorized cars. The motorized vehicles are being used at a hospital in…
By Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan I want to tell you a story. It may seem like a fairy tale, and in many ways, it is. It is a journey that zigzags…
The College of Nursing and Health Professions is pleased to introduce a series of articles authored by Paul Thomas Clements, who will share his expertise on topics such as workplace…
The job search can prove to be challenging and take a good amount of time and effort. You have been diligent with making sure your resume is eye-catching and that…
When Amelia Eldred, an active 7-year-old in England, needed her leg amputated to treat bone cancer, doctors performed an unusual surgery: They removed the middle part of her leg and…
A second British woman has died after undergoing “Brazilian butt lift” surgery, it emerged today. The woman, aged in her late 20s, died following the cosmetic procedure earlier this year.…
A Canadian surgeon became the talk of the Internet after he performed an operation without the use of anaesthetic – on his patient’s ripped teddy bear. Dr Daniel McNeely, a…
A joint research team including faculty from Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina has unveiled a high-fidelity, mock operating room at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston.…
In some wealthy countries, more than 1 in 1,000 people may be employed as specialist surgeons. The world of medicine has changed drastically in the past few decades. There have…
ACCORDING TO DEGREE OF RISK Major – High degree of risk. May be complicated /prolonged, large losses of blood may occur, vital organs be involved, post-op complications may be likely.…
Madera Community Hospital has been fined by the state for a surgery on the wrong side of the body of a patient that led to a delay in the targeted…
“I think it’s a great advancement for minimally invasive surgery.” said Dr. Greg Marchand, the lead surgeon. MESA, AZ, USA — Dr. Greg J. Marchand of Marchand Institute for Minimally…
Hand signals in surgery depict a form of non verbal communication among the scrubbed surgical team. Surgical instruments should be carefully passed into the hand of the surgeon without the…
A two-year-old girl has been given a new lease of life after undergoing pioneering surgery to have her 72cm head reduced. Little Maryam was born with Hydrocephalus – a condition…
By Josh Jennings Perioperative nurse Dr Jed Duff says he remembers when he was a nursing student rotating through the operating theatre at Dubbo Base Hospital. One day, he was…
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Using two tiny mechanical claws, community members tested out Skagit Regional Health’s new robotic surgery system by unwrapping Starburst candies and moving around mini-rubber rings.…
Dena Knapp went to Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., to have an adrenal gland and associated mass removed. Instead, according to a lawsuit, Dr. Scott Baker removed her…
The hybrid operating theatres at Clinique Cecil, Klinik Im Park and Klinik Hirslanden enable precise imaging diagnostics during surgery. Clinique Cecil, Klinik Im Park and Klinik Hirslanden each have an…
A Canadian doctor was among a world-class team responsible for giving a young woman in her 20s a new face and, by extension, a second chance at life. Dr. Gaby…
Denis Furtado is held after Lilian Calixto died following a procedure at the celebrity surgeon’s apartment in Rio de Janeiro. Dr Bumbum – a celebrity plastic surgeon from Brazil known…
Is Titan’s SPORT going to storm the robotic surgery market? The darling of ORs everywhere: Intuitive Surgical In 2000 Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) went public at $9 a share dazzling Wall…
By Samantha Gee Theatre nurse Barbara Chippendale remembers when she had to wash swabs so they could be reused by doctors in surgery. The Nelson woman began her working life…