EARN Cares

MARCH 24, 2022

The operating room (OR) is a team based unit where patients undergo surgical procedures. The OR is a chilly fast-paced environment where nurses collaborate with scrub techs and anesthesia to help the surgical team perform safe and efficient surgery. Surgical nursing is unlike any other nursing specialty or unit.

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Picis

JANUARY 15, 2024

By digitizing the information that once was found sprawled across whiteboards in a clinical setting, patient tracking systems can help your organization deliver a higher standard of communication, collaboration, and patient care in a perioperative environment. The result? The evolution is here, and it’s time to be part of it.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With rising anesthesia costs and stagnating reimbursements, ASCs’ margins are thinner than they were even five years ago. You’ll see and understand what is ‘under the hood’ from clinical, financial, operational and regulatory perspectives,” shares Eisenberg. What’s the State of the Facility’s Anesthesia Provider Relationship?

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PANA

APRIL 21, 2023

Part of her pediatric critical care transport training involved performing advanced airway management in the operating room. After graduating from the nurse anesthesia program in 2010, Ngin began working at Hershey Medical Center, where she said she enjoys providing care to its diverse patient population.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

With our successes in engineering, pharmacology and myriad other areas of research, anesthesia is safer than it’s ever been, despite an ever-sicker patient population. Chief Operating Officer of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Chief Operating Officer of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

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RK.MD

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I was humbled also to be selected as one of the associate medical directors of our new Master of Science in Anesthesia program at UTHealth – McGovern Medical School. Most importantly, I’m looking for new opportunities to educate over social media, in-person lectures, and various collaborations!

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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

MARCH 29, 2024

The Challenges Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital, based in Nashville, Tennessee, encountered persistent issues with missing documentation, including anesthesia records, Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiograms, perfusion records, and Pulmonary Function Test results. A key obstacle was the time it took to address missing paperwork.

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Caresyntax

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Since then, she has spearheaded initiatives in the optimization of Operating Room (OR) management. These initiatives aim to ensure that not only do patients experience minimal wait times, but surgeons are also able to operate more efficiently.

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Incision

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the operating room (OR), the team responsible for the delivery of a procedure is typically a combination of surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and technicians working together on a shift-based and/or specialty-based rota. Increased familiarity is associated with better team performance, particularly in reducing operative time.

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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

MARCH 29, 2024

The Challenges Ascension Saint Thomas Health, based in Nashville, Tennessee, encountered persistent issues with missing documentation, including anesthesia records, Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiograms (TEE), perfusion records, and Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) results.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Operating Room, Perioperative or Surgical Services Resume Example Operating Room Registered Nurses (OR RNs) can be named by various nursing job titles including surgical services registered nurses and/or perioperative registered nurses. View surgical services/operating room RN Sample Resume 8.

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Incision

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Benefits of Familiarity In the operating room (OR), a core multidisciplinary team is responsible for the delivery of each procedure, working together on a shift-based and/or specialty-based rota. Increased familiarity is associated with better team performance, particularly in reducing operative time.

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Incision

JANUARY 29, 2024

We share some strategies to help navigate breakdowns, optimize collaboration, and pool our collective strengths in order to hit the highest standards possible. In Washington , communication failures contributed to injury in 43% of perioperative anesthesia malpractice claims, with nearly half of these occurring in the intraoperative period.

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The Anesthesia Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

The accompanying editorial emphasises the importance of high predictive accuracy and clinical usability in the adoption of pre-operative mortality risk prediction models in routine clinical practice. However, the surgical outcome risk tool (SORT) demonstrated the best combination of predictive performance and clinical usability.

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The Anesthesia Blog

JANUARY 17, 2023

There is much left to study, including peri-operative biomarker-guided interventions, which promise to improve postoperative outcomes in patients who might have in the past developed a more severe acute kidney injury. Most of us think we know about acute kidney injury and renal medicine in ICU, and this review from Boyer et al.

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Picis

OCTOBER 15, 2024

i²medi and Picis proudly announced the successful implementation of the Picis OR MANAGER®, a comprehensive operating room management system, into one of Mexico’s major hospital networks. This achievement signifies a substantial advancement in surgical planning, operating theater optimization, and overall hospital productivity.

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Picis

OCTOBER 15, 2024

i²medi and Picis announced their exciting collaboration expansion into Colombia. These applications can automatically gather data from vital signs monitors and anesthesia machines. The seamless documentation of anesthesia files is a key value-add for clinical users in Colombian hospitals.

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Caresyntax

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Why Data Across the Surgical Continuum Matters Integrated operating rooms have reshaped surgery in the past decade, providing amongst other benefits, enhanced communication, shortened surgical times, reduced patient cancellations, real-time access to patient information and advanced imaging, as well as maximum use of operating rooms.

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SpecialtyCare

JANUARY 15, 2025

It also reports that 65% of sentinel events reported by The Joint Commission between 2004 and 2012 played a role in errors related to care as well as operative and post-operative events. Additionally, Patient Safety in Anesthesia reports that 87% of cases that resulted in an indemnity payment were due to communication problems. #2

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PANA

JANUARY 20, 2025

As the hands-on providers of anesthesia, CRNAs are with their patients throughout the entire medical procedure. With a history that spans to the Civil War, CRNAs have been the main providers of anesthesia care to U.S. military personnel since World War I and remain the primary anesthesia providers in austere combat theaters.

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Caresyntax

JANUARY 30, 2025

Predictive Analytics for Proactive Care: AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of patient data, including medical history, pre-operative scans, and even real-time vital signs, to predict potential complications before they arise. This allows care teams to proactively adjust their approach, mitigate risks, and optimize patient outcomes.

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