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Knowing Me, Knowing You: What Can We Learn From Familiar Surgical Teams?

Incision

Surgical care is the product of numerous interprofessional interactions, reflected in several key multidisciplinary teams. Neurosurgical teams reported fewer workflow disruptions in teams with high levels of surgeon-scrub nurse familiarity [ 11 ]. vs 10.0%), longer operative times, and a longer hospital stay.

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LEARJET ANESTHESIA – THE EARLY DAYS OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION

The Anesthesia Consultant

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. Note that the anesthesia transport team member was only an anesthesia fellow or a resident.

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SERIALIZATION OF THE DOCTOR AND MR. DYLAN… CHAPTER TWO

The Anesthesia Consultant

The kid had no insight into what I did minute-to-minute in the hospital. It had been five hours since the initial skin incision. Melody was on the debate team and the varsity tennis team, and for three years she worked with Alzheimer patients at a nursing home in Palo Alto. Mom is so pissed. She called me a lazy s**t.”