Incision

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Surgical care is the product of numerous interprofessional interactions, reflected in several key multidisciplinary teams. Faster and More Efficient In 2022, a systematic review published in the Annals of Surgery examined the impact of team familiarity on OR efficiency [ 4 ]. What’s a Familiar Team?

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The Surgicalist Group

AUGUST 16, 2020

Mit Desai started a general surgery practice specializing in acute care surgery in Tampa, Florida in the early 2000’s creating the foundation for what would later become The Surgicalist Group. The Surgicalist Group modeled a surgical hospitalist type practice, taking on only emergent and urgent cases for nearby hospitals.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

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. Upon arrival at the airport in the donor city, an ambulance transported us to the hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The text read: 911 call me I was administering an anesthetic to a 41-year-old woman in an operating room at Stanford University, while a neurosurgeon worked to remove a meningioma tumor from her brain. My son was in trouble, and I was stuck in surgery, unable to leave. In the operating room I had authority, and respect was a given.

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Operating Room Operation Vital Signs Nurse Anesthetist 52