Diagnosing and Managing Chest Pain
"Chest pain refers to pain felt anywhere in the chest area from the level of your shoulders to the bottom of your ribs. It is a common symptom. There are…
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This momentous event will unfold in Lagos, Nigeria, uniting operating room experts, healthcare professionals, and scientific enthusiasts from around the world. Focused on innovation, surgery, research, and collaboration, this conference…
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Operating Room Communications
Operating Theatre
Operating Theatre Preparation
Perioperative Care
Perioperative Documentation
Common Operating Room Issues
"Operating rooms (ORs) are critical spaces where complex surgical procedures are performed. These spaces are designed to provide a sterile environment that ensures the safety and well-being of patients, healthcare…
Life in the operating room
Patient Education
Perioperative Care
Perioperative Documentation
Perioperative Education
Recovery
Postoperative Care and the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
"You may have heard the term “perioperative nursing”—this encompasses the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of the patient’s surgical experience. This post will focus on the postoperative phase, which begins…
Diagnosing and Managing Chest Pain
"Chest pain refers to pain felt anywhere in the chest area from the level of your shoulders to the bottom of your ribs. It is a common symptom. There are…
3D Printing in Spine Surgery – The prediction of surgeons
'The use of 3D-printed spine devices and implants has grown in recent months, allowing for more customized surgical planning. Many spine surgeons see potential in 3D-printed technology but also foresee…
Plastic Surgery vs. Cosmetic Surgery vs. Reconstructive Surgery: What’s the Difference?
'If you typically use cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery interchangeably you’re not alone. Many people who hear the terms plastic, reconstructive, or cosmetic surgery assume the three are the same.…
Questions to Ask Before you undergo a Surgical operation
It is important to be informed about the surgery being recommended, particularly if it is elective surgery (an operation you choose to have done), rather than an emergency surgery. All…
Perioperative Documentation
Perioperative Education
Perioperative Nursing
Surgical Draping
Surgical Positioning
Surgical Technology
Draping the Surgical Patient – Techniques for different surgical positions
'The purpose of draping is to eliminate the passage of microorganisms between non-sterile and sterile areas. Draping materials may be disposable or nondisposable...' #surgicaldraping #drapingtechniques
Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury influences the underlying foundations of what our identity is; our capacity to think, to convey messages, and to connect with others. For roughly 85% of individuals with…
Surgeons reconstruct girl’s skull after her head swells to dangerous size
Surgeons at a Canadian hospital have used cutting edge technology to completely reconstruct a two-year-old’s skull after her head swelled to the size of a basketball due to an abnormal…
Robotic surgery experts left theatre before end of heart op at Freeman Hospital, inquest hears.
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…
Dying from scoliosis, ‘bending by the hour’ – 18th Surgery that changed his life
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…
Second British woman dies after ‘Brazilian butt lift’ surgery
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.…
Canadian surgeon helps with face transplant for young suicide survivor
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…
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…
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…
Woman Born Without A Vagina Has Been Given One Using Tilapia Fish Skin ( Neovaginoplasty)
A Brazilian woman born without a vagina has been the first in the world to receive a life-changing constructive treatment involving the skin of tilapia fish. Student Jucilene Marinho, 23,…
All Children’s Hospital never told state about surgical needle left in baby
By Kathleen McGrory, Neil Bedi Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital broke Florida law by failing to tell regulators about two serious medical errors, according to a state report. The report,…
The VA Hospital In L.A. Has Cancelled 83 Surgeries Due To A Fly Infestation In Operating Rooms
By Jared Sichel The Department of Veteran Affairs isn’t just in need of more doctors, nurses, and medical personnel. Someone over there needs to call an exterminator — right now.…
Gynecological mesh: The medical device that has 100,000 women suing
A common surgical implant has generated the largest multi-district litigation since asbestos. 60 Minutes reports on one of the device’s manufacturers, Boston Scientific, now facing 48,000 lawsuits. By Scott Pelley…
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…
G-spot surgery given to three women to boost sexual pleasure
By Helen Thomson Three women have received a surgery intended to improve G-spot sensitivity and increase sexual satisfaction. The procedure tightens tissue in the vaginal wall around the so-called G…
Connecticut Woman’s Rare 132-Pound Tumour Removed In Lifesaving Surgery
By Nicholas Rondinone If surgeons had waited any longer, a Connecticut woman’s 132-pound tumour would have killed her. But the doctors involved said the surgery earlier this year at Danbury…
Surgeon mistakes ovary, Fallopian tube for appendix, says poor vision responsible!
A senior surgeon with “poor vision” accidentally removed a woman’s ovary instead of her appendix and then told bosses it was a “trifling error.” The United Kingdom resident doctor of…
MIT Surgery News
Operating Room Equipment Error
Operating Theatre
Operating Theatre Preparation
Surgery News
SurgiBox
Turning any room into an operating room
With a product called SurgiBox, grad student Sally Miller hopes to make safe, clean surgery possible anywhere. By Mary B. O’Leary Dust, dirt, bacteria, flies — these are just some…
Patient dies after operating table collapses during surgery
By Lata Rani Patna: A major government hospital in India’s Bihar state has come under fire again after a woman died of injuries sustained when the table she was being…
Ransomware: Patient’s long-awaited cardiac surgery cancelled
A heart patient told last night how his long-awaited operation was cancelled because of the cyber attack as he waited to go into the operating theatre. Patrick Ward, 47, had…