Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Some of their main tasks include: Preparing the Operating Room : Surgical assistants ensure all equipment is sterile and ready. Their expertise allows the surgeon to focus on the most complex parts of the operation. Surgical assistants work closely with surgeons to ensure safe and efficient procedures.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Crucial Role of Surgical Assistants in Plastic Surgery Surgical assistants are indispensable in the operating room, handling tasks that are critical to the success of any procedure. Postoperative Care: Assisting with closing incisions, applying dressings, and ensuring patient comfort as they recover from anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Until the 1990s most abdominal surgery was done through an open incision. To remove a gall bladder or an appendix, the surgeon made an incision into the abdomen, inserted his hands and instruments, cut out the tissue under direct vision, and then sewed the abdomen together again. A gall bladder incision might be five inches long.

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Incision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At Incision, we are determined to change that. At the heart of Incision’s mission is the belief that every patient deserves the highest level of care, and every surgical team should be empowered to deliver it. However, the reality is that surgical innovations sometimes take up 5-7 years to reach operating rooms.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10. Then we’ll roll down the hallway into the operating room. and to bring your cell phone with you.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

MAY 25, 2020

said Willing Accomplice, the room’s circulating nurse. The patient tolerated incision well, was able to hold his breath when directed by the surgeons, and was able to be successfully placed on the heart-lung machine.” Dr. Annuloplasty remains in a ketamine-induced haze in the corner of the operating room.

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RASA Training

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Following this, the military formed a new profession called ORT (Operating Room Technician). Growth of ST Recognition The first certification exam was given in 1970 with those passing given the title of Certified Operating Room Technician or CORT.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

IN THE OPERATING ROOM: Mr. Doe will be asleep for the surgery, and Dr. A will be present the entire time. The operating room nurse presses down on Mr. Doe’s cricoid cartilage in his neck, to compress the esophagus and prevent any stomach contents from regurgitating upward into the airway.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

RNFAs: Bridging Nursing and Surgery Registered Nurse First Assistants (RNFAs) bring a unique blend of nursing care and surgical expertise to the operating room. Surgical Assistance: During surgery, PAs assist in closing incisions, applying dressings, and managing drains, adapting quickly to the needs of the surgical team.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Anesthesiologists typically spend 90+% of their working hours in the operating room. A busy surgeon will spend 50% of their time in the operating room, and the other 50% in preoperative clinic, postoperative clinic, or rounding on patients in the hospital. Which brings us to Law #2: The patient must wake up.

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Trocar Supplies

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Surgeons prize stainless steel for its minimal friction against connective tissue, and the cleanness of the resulting incision. Enough manufacturers use stainless steel-nickel alloys that about half of operating rooms nonetheless have leaching of nicke l from surgical instruments that can trigger allergic reactions in patients or staff.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 20, 2019

Chapter 1 THE BRICKLAYER Alec Lucas’s first contact with FutureCare came in operating room #19 at the University of Silicon Valley Medical Center, where his patient Elizabeth Anderson blinked into the twin suns of the surgical lights hanging from the ceiling. An orderly ran into the operating room carrying a red plastic beer cooler.

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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. A power saw was used to cut the breastbone down the midline to enter the chest.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 12, 2015

In the operating room, you induce anesthesia with your standard recipe of 2 mg of midazolam, 100 mcg of fentanyl, 200 mg of propofol, and 40 mg of rocuronium, and intubate the trachea. Five minutes after induction and 15-30 minutes before the surgical incision will occur, her blood pressure drops to 85/45. Is this a problem?

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Incision

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In our previous article, "Sterile Processing and the Operating Room: Why Patient Safety Can't Be Rushed", we emphasized the importance of embracing the 4.5-hour Here at Incision, we’re dedicated to writing blogs that inspire conversation, bring teams closer together and educate in a dynamic way.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Prior to the pulse oximeter, anesthesiologists had only unreliable measures of tissue oxygenation, such as observing how red the blood seemed when the surgeon made the initial incision into the patient. The remaining operating rooms would proceed without oximetry. Undetected hypoxia could present as a sudden cardiac arrest.

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Incision

JANUARY 29, 2024

The intraoperative period (green in Fig 1) is of particular interest, not least because these are the processes that utilize the operating room (OR) and a large part of a hospital’s expenditure. To this end, Incision has worked extensively with the concept of a universal surgical language. The perioperative period.

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Incision

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Within a hospital, between 20 and 70% of this can be directly traced back to the operating department [ 2 , 3 ]. Daily, US operating rooms (ORs) generate up to 2000 tons of waste [ 4 ]. Perfectly good, entirely sterile and, above all, much-needed surgical supplies are routinely discarded in American operating rooms.

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BFW Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The smaller camera only needs a tiny incision for less invasive surgery. Enables the surgeon’s onsite team to get a better look at what’s happening for more cohesive teamwork in the operating room. Using this tool, surgeons can perform procedures more accurately, leading to increased success rates.

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Incision

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Between 20 and 70% of all hospital waste can be directly traced back to the operating department [ 3 , 4 ]. In a single day, US operating rooms (ORs) generate up to 2000 tons of waste [ 5 ]. Here at Incision, we’re dedicated to writing blogs that inspire conversation, bring teams closer together and educate in a dynamic way.

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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. Here at Incision, we’re dedicated to writing blogs that inspire conversation, bring teams closer together and educate in a dynamic way.

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Caresyntax

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The challenges for operating room (OR) managers are universal: improving surgical workflow efficiency while providing high-quality, reliable, safe patient care. And don’t forget—working to ensure profitability. Most ORs have data, the key is knowing what to do with it. There are surgical leaders who are beginning to crack the code.

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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. And what lessons can we take from these to improve and support our own? What’s a Familiar Team?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

As House of the Dragon depicted, in primitive times there was no way to stop the acute bleeding from Cesarean incisions into the abdomen and the uterus. Cesarean sections in the United States today are typically controlled surgeries, with comfortable mothers and with the father present in the operating room holding the mother’s hand.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Surgical Techniques: The cricothyroid membrane is divided by a surgical incision made with a wide scalpel (#10 scalpel). With the scalpel, bougie, tube (SBT) technique, a bougie is inserted into the trachea through the incision. A lubricated 6.0 Enlisting the surgeon’s help during the procedure is advisable.

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SpecialtyCare

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

These professionals handle a variety of tasks, including performing preoperative assessments, assisting in the operating room, and managing postoperative care. They are crucial members of the surgical team, ensuring that operations run smoothly while improving patient outcomes. Their responsibilities include: 1.

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Caresyntax

JANUARY 30, 2025

AIs impact can translate to smaller incisions, reduced blood loss, less postoperative pain, and faster recovery for patients. The Future is Now: Embracing the AI-Enhanced OR The integration of AI into the operating room is not just an incremental improvement; it’s a paradigm shift.

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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. I scanned the operating room monitors and confirmed that her vital signs were perfect. Her life was my responsibility.

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