News tagged with operating room
How the brain loses and regains consciousness (w/ video)
Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery. Despite their widespread use, little is known about how these drugs create such a profound loss of ...
Neuroscience
Mar 04, 2013 |
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Checklists in operating rooms improve performance during crises
In an airplane crisis—an engine failure, a fire—pilots pull out a checklist to help with their decision-making. But in an operating room crisis—massive bleeding, a patient's heart stops—surgical teams don't. Given ...
Surgery
Jan 16, 2013 |
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Surgeons may use hand gestures to manipulate MRI images in OR
Doctors may soon be using a system in the operating room that recognizes hand gestures as commands to tell a computer to browse and display medical images of the patient during a surgery.
Surgery
Jan 10, 2013 |
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Young surgeons face special concerns with operating room distractions
(Medical Xpress)—A study has found that young, less-experienced surgeons made major surgical mistakes almost half the time during a "simulated" gall bladder removal when they were distracted by noises, ...
Surgery
Nov 29, 2012 |
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New sealant gel is effective in closing spinal wounds following surgery, study finds
A gel that creates a watertight seal to close surgical wounds provides a significant advance in the treatment of patients following spinal procedures, effectively sealing spinal wounds 100 percent of the time, a national ...
Medical research
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Background noise in the operating room can impair surgical team communication
Chicago (May 10, 2013): Ambient background noise—whether it is the sound of loud surgical equipment, talkative team members, or music—is a patient and surgical safety factor that can affect auditory processing among surgeons ...
Surgery
May 10, 2013 |
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Study finds survival from cardiac arrest highest in the operating room or post-anesthesia care unit
A University of Michigan study from the "Online First" edition of Anesthesiology found cardiac arrest was associated with improved survival when it occurred in the operating room (O.R.) or post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) ...
Cardiology
May 01, 2013 |
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Patient satisfaction with hospital stay does not reflect quality of surgical care
Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of a hospital's service quality, but new Johns Hopkins research suggests that it doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the surgical care patients receive.
Health
Apr 17, 2013 |
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Repairing the nose after skin cancer in just one step
The skin cancer growing on Carolyn Bohlmann's nose was not a very aggressive variety. But it was deep and located right on her nostril. The tricky part was not so much removing it – MOHS surgery, the procedure ...
Surgery
Mar 12, 2013 |
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Wii-playing surgeons may improve performance on laparoscopic procedures
Laparoscopic surgeons may improve certain aspects of surgical performance by regularly playing on a Nintendo Wii, according to research published February 27 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Gregorio Patrizi and co ...
Surgery
Feb 27, 2013 |
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Traditions in Chad harm, kill underfed children
(AP)—On the day of their son's surgery, the family woke before dawn. They saddled their horses and set out across the 12-mile-long carpet of sand to the nearest town, where they hoped the reputed doctor ...
Health
Dec 24, 2012 |
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New device may reduce repeat breast cancer surgeries
(HealthDay)—A new device meant to help surgeons determine in the operating room if they have removed all cancerous breast cancer tissue may help reduce repeat surgeries after lumpectomy without compromising ...
Cancer
Sep 12, 2012 |
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Galaxy-exploring camera in the operating room
Neurosurgeons and researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute are adapting an ultraviolet camera to possibly bring planet-exploring technology into the operating room.
Surgery
Jul 12, 2012 |
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Circulating nurses recover errors in cardiovascular operating room
(HealthDay) -- Circulating perioperative nurses can help reduce surgical errors and incidents in the cardiovascular operating room (OR) and improve patient safety, especially with regard to surgical prepping ...
Cardiology
Jun 05, 2012 |
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Auto industry lean techniques boost morale and teamwork in the operating room
For a year and a half, the University of Michigan Health System turned one of its head and neck surgery practices into a laboratory.
Surgery
May 29, 2012 |
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