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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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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACEĀ 

The Anesthesia Consultant

An astronaut en route to Mars develops severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. A fellow crew member examines him and finds significant tenderness and guarding in the right lower quadrant of his abdomen. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Is an anesthesiologist required on board?

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35 Nurse Resume Examples for 2024

EARN Cares

At EARN Cares, we've helped thousands of nurses through our peer-RN network and have taken our experience, lessons and adapted them below to help curate 36 sample nurse resume examples. The EARN Cares team is here to help and leverage our nursing resume expertise to your advantage.

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12 MEDICAL INACCURACIES IN FAMOUS MOVIE SCENES. AN ANESTHESIOLOGISTā€™S ANALYSIS

The Anesthesia Consultant

I love the movies, but it can be painful to watch scenes where the facts are distorted, sometimes so much that the storyline is implausible. Letā€™s take a look at medical inaccuracies in movie scenes from 12 famous Hollywood films: Million Dollar Baby (2004). Her coach and trainer, Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) visits her. He could not.

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How Psychological State Affects the Operating Room (OR)

DFW Anesthesia Professionals

Surgeons use a Polar S710i heart rate monitor for continuous tracking, and saliva samples for cortisol analysis are collected before and after each surgery. Research has demonstrated that a patientā€™s psychological state can play a role; in addition, the psychological state of clinicians can also impact the OR. 1] Arora et al.