The Advantages Offered By Travel Nursing Careers
Being a travel nurse, you are given the opportunity to go wherever you want to be. From mountain areas to beaches and anywhere you may opt to, you are free…
Understanding the Diagnosis, Symptoms and Signs of Brain Tumors
Symptoms of a brain tumor can be general or specific. A general symptom is caused by the pressure of the tumor on the brain or spinal cord. Specific symptoms are…
Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) – A Heart Condition
When mitral valve prolapse is severe enough to cause significant valve leakage, called “regurgitation,” it can lead to serious complications such as heart attack and stroke...
TORG Digital Blended Learning Courses
Delighted to announce that The Operating Room Global (TORG) will be partnering with Incision Academy to deliver digital surgical solutions, blended learning, device certification and competence tracking to all OR…
Hip Replacement and Revision Hip Surgery
Revision hip surgery is more complicated and more time consuming than first time hip replacements and the outcome is often less satisfactory. Complete pain relief is less common than in…
Preparing a child for surgery – Instructional Guide
The operating room can be a scary place for children, with unfamiliar equipment and people dressed in strange outfits...
Study shows new surgical protective gear does not reduce surgical site infections
A study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published in JAMA Surgery on Feb. 12 indicates that surgical jackets and head covers known as bouffants did not reduce the…
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Warning after Brit mother-of-three dies following liposuction in Turkey
The husband of a British woman who died after liposuction surgery in Turkey is warning others over the risks of health tourism. A postmortem found Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose died from…
Surgical Devices and Procedures used in Heart Failure Treatment
These devices are surgically placed and deliver pacing – or an electric counter-shock – to the heart when a life-threatening abnormal rhythm is detected... Read More..
Bariatric Surgery: The Quick Fix to Obesity
The most common procedure is the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Here, a small stomach pouch is created with... Read More..
Staffing Needs In The Operating Room
In some institutions, the floaters are also responsible for organizing the instrumentation and supplies that will be used during each case. This important task can save valuable time between cases....…
Suturing Techniques Instructional Videos
Suturing entails the closure of a wound or defect using a thread attached to a needle with knots tied to maintain the apposition of wound edges As with all simple…
Hospital floors are hotspot for bacteria, creating route of transfer to patients
The floors of hospital rooms are quickly and frequently contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria within hours of patient admission, creating a route of transfer of potentially dangerous organisms to patients...
New Study identifies the detection rates of missing microsurgical needles using intra‐operative imaging
When a needle is lost during surgery, consider the following before ordering fluoroscopy. Needles of chord length greater than 13 mm (6–0) should be reliably detected whilst 3.8 mm (10–0) needles will…
Proposed ban on breast enlargement, liposuction and other cosmetic surgery adverts being shown to under-18s
An advert shown during Love Island in 2018 about breast enhancement is one example which raised concerns over the protection of children. It led to the Mental Health Foundation logging…
Laminectomy: What you need to know!
Laminectomy is usually done for back or neck pain that continues after medical treatment. Or it is done when the pain is accompanied by symptoms of nerve damage, such as…
Being a surgeon and a mom
Nearly 40 percent of pregnant surgery residents consider dropping out. Many wonder: Why can’t the system accommodate motherhood?
Coronavirus: Currently ‘no evidence’ that COVID-19 survivors have immunity, WHO warns
Epidemiologists warn there is no proof that antibody tests can show if someone who has been infected cannot be infected again. There is no evidence that people who have recovered…
Why Surgeons Don’t Want to Operate Right Now
A rising death toll among doctors in Italy provides a warning about the dangers of poor protection and testing. Last week, the Italian government began publishing a new dataset related…
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Sunshine Hospital patient burned during procedure after fire starts in surgical theatre
A 72-year-old woman has suffered burns after a fire ignited while she was undergoing a procedure in a Sunshine Hospital surgical theatre. The blaze began when medical equipment malfunctioned just…
Nurses to carry out surgery under NHS plans to slash waiting times
Nursing staff will be urged to undertake a two year course to become “surgical care practitioners” Nurses will be trained to perform surgery under new NHS measures to cut waiting…
Preparing for surgery? Questions you should ask
Patients usually have questions before a surgical procedure. Doctors like to know their patients are involved in their own care, and they appreciate listening to their concerns, answering their questions…
Welcome 2020!
Happy New Year from The Operating Room Global (TORG). We all wish that there was more time in the day. When the day is over and we look back at…
Chinese Scientist Who Genetically Edited Babies Gets 3 Years in Prison
The scientist He Jiankui at a medical conference in Hong Kong last year, when he announced he had created the world’s first genetically edited babies. Image Credit…Kin Cheung/Associated Press He…
Romanian woman dies after being set on fire during surgery
A patient has died after she was set alight during surgery for cancer, succumbing to burns on 40 percent of her body. Surgeons had used an electric scalpel and flammable…
Doctors remove giant kidney weighing 16.3 pounds
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…
Double-booked surgery cited in death at MGH, records indicate
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 cancels more than 140 elective surgeries
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…
Cleveland Clinic Performs Its First In Utero Fetal Surgery
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…
Surgical objects left in patients on the rise in Canada, data shows
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…