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The Fastest Path: Healthcare Startup Uses AI to Analyze Cancer Cells in the Operating Room

NVIDIA: Healthcare

Medical-device company Invenio Imaging is developing technology that enables surgeons to evaluate tissue biopsies in the operating room, immediately after samples are collected — providing in just three minutes AI-accelerated insights that would otherwise take weeks to obtain from a pathology lab. alone, lung nodules are found in over 1.5

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Improving Surgical Services Performance Webinar

HealthLinx: Surgical Services

We’ll review Surgical Services sample dashboards & metrics to track success; and discuss achievement of sustained performance. This session is valuable to hospital Perioperative Services Leaders (Executive Administrators, Directors, Nurse Managers), Anesthesia Providers, and C-Suite Executives.

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'Whac-a-Mole' clinical trial participant experiences remission of Stage 4 triple negative breast cancer

IU School of Medicine

She was admitted to the hospital for two days to monitor and manage symptoms. The Whac-a-Mole trial was undergirded by years of research in Radovich’s lab, beginning by comparing samples of healthy breast tissue from the Susan G. “It felt like I had meningitis, epilepsy and hypothermia all at once—and I couldn’t stop throwing up.

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Data-Driven Surgical Tray Optimization to Improve Operating Room Efficiency

OpFlow

Wood, MD, MBA, FACS ABSTRACT Surgical procedures account for over 60% of the operating cost of a hospital. Hospitals spend several million dollars a year on instrument sterilization, instrument tray assembly, and instrument repurchase costs. We perform extensive out-of-sample testing of our solution.

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First Annual Surgeon Compensation Survey

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

STS compensation survey data is consistent with recent surveys published by MedAxiom and Becker’s Hospital Review. The limited sample size produced some variability, e.g. adult cardiac is underrepresented in the Northeast and overrepresented in the South. This first annual survey is limited in sample size and produced some variability.

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PATIENTS: IS IT SAFE FOR YOU TO HAVE SURGERY DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC AS OF MAY 2020?

The Anesthesia Consultant

The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? Most of these swab specimens are taken from the posterior aspect of the nose, although some tests only require an anterior nasal swab or a sputum/saliva sample.

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Recognizing the Art of Infusion Therapy

Transforming Outcomes

therapy was delivered for the hospitalized child. Kim Schommer, RN, BSN, VA-BC: While working in the hospital, inserting IVs and managing them was a daily task that was just part of the job. access and I.V. Kris: Infusion therapy chose me. By chance I was thrown into an infusion therapy position and grew to love the art.

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