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How Plastic Surgeons in MD, DC, and Virginia Benefit from Using Platinum Medical Staffing for Temporary Surgical Assistants

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

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. Intraoperative Assistance: Passing instruments to the surgeon, maintaining the sterile field, and assisting with tissue retraction and suturing.

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The Crucial Role of Surgical Assistants, RNFAs, and Physician Assistants in Spine Surgeries

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

RNFAs: Bridging Nursing and Surgery Registered Nurse First Assistants (RNFAs) bring a unique blend of nursing care and surgical expertise to the operating room. Intraoperative Assistance: They provide hands-on support, such as tissue handling and suturing, while monitoring the patient’s condition to ensure a successful surgery.

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THE TWO LAWS OF ANESTHESIA (ACCORDING TO SURGEONS)

The Anesthesia Consultant

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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September 2018

RASA Training

Following this, the military formed a new profession called ORT (Operating Room Technician). There was a considerable amount of on-the-job training which included patient care, instrument sterilization, draping procedures, instrumentation and sutures.

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THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DOCTOR VITA BY RICK NOVAK

The Anesthesia Consultant

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 Real Cost of Waste in Surgery

Incision

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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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON BLOODY CESAREAN SECTION: A DOCTOR’S PERSPECTIVE

The Anesthesia Consultant

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. Until the 1870s Cesarean section surgical technique to control bleeding remained crude, and did not include surgical suture closure. In a retrospective study of 1.5