Platinum Meidcal Staffing

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In the high-stakes environment of the operating room, a surgeon’s success is rarely a solo achievement. Surgical assistants, RNFAs (Registered Nurse First Assistants), and PAs (Physician Assistants) are critical team members who directly impact the efficiency and safety of every procedure.

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Incision

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Welcome back to our series on the inner workings of the Sterile Processing Department (SPD). 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 Sterilization is the standard to ensure a patient’s safety.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Role and Responsibilities of a Surgical First Assistant SFAs are integral to the surgical process, performing tasks that include: Preoperative Preparation : They prepare the operating room by ensuring all necessary instruments and equipment are sterilized and arranged according to the surgeon’s preferences.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Assisting Surgical Teams: Providing direct support to surgeons and operating room staff by ensuring that all necessary instruments and equipment are available and functioning correctly. Ensuring Sterility and Safety: Upholding strict sterilization protocols to prevent infections and maintain a safe surgical environment.

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SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Sterile Processing Consulting 4. Enhanced Patient Safety and Outcomes 8. SpecialtyCare’s Comprehensive Approach to Surgical Services SpecialtyCare offers hospitals a wide range of surgical services that enhance the precision, safety, and success of various procedures. Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM) 2.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

SpecialtyCare’s approach includes: Rigorous Training Programs : SFAs employed by SpecialtyCare undergo extensive training that covers everything from aseptic techniques and surgical instrumentation to patient safety protocols. This division of labor enhances operating room efficiency and improves patient care.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They ensure that the operating room is properly prepared, setting up sterilized instruments and positioning the patient. Enhancing Precision and Safety In lumbar discectomies, precision is key. Moreover, patient safety is paramount. This prep work allows the surgeon to focus entirely on the procedure.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the highly specialized field of plastic surgery, having a reliable and skilled team is essential to delivering top-notch results and ensuring patient safety. Their responsibilities include: Preoperative Preparation: Ensuring the operating room is ready, sterilizing instruments, and preparing patients for surgery.

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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. Surgical assistants maintain a sterile field and prevent infections, improving patient outcomes. In cardiovascular surgeries, they play a critical role due to the heart’s delicate nature.

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Trocar Supplies

AUGUST 21, 2023

Used by various professionals, autoclaves play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and well-being of both patients and practitioners. When it comes to surgical procedures, dental treatments, laboratory experiments, hormone pellet therapy, or the artistry of tattoos, cleanliness, and sterility are of paramount importance.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The surgical assistant plays a critical role in assisting the surgeon with tissue dissection, maintaining a sterile environment, managing instruments, and suturing. Having the right surgical assistant on your team reduces the risk of errors, decreases operating room time, and improves overall workflow.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The surgical assistant plays a critical role in assisting the surgeon with tissue dissection, maintaining a sterile environment, managing instruments, and suturing. Having the right surgical assistant on your team reduces the risk of errors, decreases operating room time, and improves overall workflow.

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OpFlow

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Many of those articles, as well as other editorials, have described the implications of the problem, not the least of which are the financial, but also effects on personnel, processing quality and patient safety. Utilize actual instrument usage data collected at the point-of-care (i.e.,

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SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 12, 2024

This role involves advanced technology and direct involvement in the operating room, providing vital support during complex procedures. Perfusionist : Perfusionists are integral to heart surgeries, operating the heart-lung machines that keep patients alive while surgeons work on the heart.

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BFW Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that — in a study of surgeons in low-resource settings — an incredible 80% reported that the quality of their surgical lights represents a patient safety risk. High operating room administration costs due to surgery cancellations and lengthy block times. Increased malpractice claims.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Because anesthesiologists do not scrub in a sterile fashion, it’s OK to wear your watch and ring., 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.

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Trocar Supplies

MAY 3, 2023

percent of devices tested positive for "organisms of low concern." Surgical centers across the United States replaced single sterilization protocols with double sterilization protocols and then added an ethylene oxide step. Patient safety, surgical departments discovered, comes at a cost. Hospitals found that they needed 3.4

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BFW Inc.

JUNE 17, 2021

Operating room inventory and equipment account for nearly 60% of total hospital costs alone. COVID-19 puts additional strain on hospital resources, due to the increased focus on sterilization and overcapacity of ICUs – improving hospital efficiency is a critical focus in response to these issues.

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The Circulating Life

OCTOBER 10, 2022

I’m frustrated with the sterile processing department (SPD). Priorities Surgery requires sterile instruments. But when you look at what gets priority within the department, is it the surgery itself, or is it what we need to make that operation a success? Without surgery and sterile procedures, SPD is unnecessary.

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Elmed

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past year there has been a lot of increased emphasis and attention placed on pre-cleaning surgical instruments at the point of use prior to transport to sterile reprocessing. This new, increased emphasis on pre-cleaning is important to you, your facility and most importantly, to your patients and their safety. Section 7.3

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BFW Inc.

MAY 17, 2023

1 In medical facilities, ensuring the disinfection of ‘superbugs’ like MRSA, C diff, and VRE is vital to the safety of patients and staff alike. In a recent article published by Healthcare Purchasing News, the need for quick turnover of patient and operating rooms requires a thorough and rapid method to disinfect these spaces.

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ARC/STSA

JUNE 22, 2023

Donna Evans Maine Medical Center School of Surgical Technology, South Portland, Maine I have seen some fascinating procedures since beginning my clinicals, and I often marvel at the skill of my preceptors and the importance of their role in the operating room.

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Symmetry Surgical

JULY 4, 2016

Cushing with the use of electrosurgery to remove the mass with very little bleeding, and the operation was a resounding success. 86 years have passed since that initial use of electrosurgery, and it has has become a mainstay in operating rooms, with over 80% of all surgeries involving the practice.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

The medical advances that enabled nearly all women to survive Cesarean section were: 1) the discovery of sterile surgical practices of handwashing and antisepsis to prevent postoperative infections; 2) the discovery of surgical techniques to stop bleeding; and 3) the discovery of anesthesia. In a retrospective study of 1.5

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MEDITEK

JANUARY 26, 2022

However, the operating tables market is growing and will reach US $1,043.41 With this forecasted growth rate, you need to know how to quickly find the best surgical tables for your operating room (OR). But first, let us define an operating table and explore some characteristics. What is an operating table?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% At this point you move to his left arm, prep the skin with Betadine, and in a sterile fashion withdraw 20 ml of the patient’s blood into a syringe.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Scientists have developed a system named IVGEN (Intravenous Fluid Generation) to prepare sterile IV normal saline from space station drinking water. Medical checklists will aim to ensure patient safety and help the astronauts gain familiarity with medical equipment and drugs. The domes are held in that shape because of surface tension.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

As well, extra oxygen tanks are present in every operating room as a safety back up, in the rare instance that the piped-in wall oxygen source is stopped or is inadequate. In the movie’s opening scene, surgeon Jack MacKee (William Hurt) is shown in the operating room completing a heart surgery. You can relax.

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Incision

JANUARY 29, 2024

Think surg techs not talking to sterile processing, anesthesiology not talking to recovery, surgeons not talking to anyone… Over time, behaviors develop to support the aims of the team itself, rather than the organization as a whole. Part of the phrase's popularity surely comes from the commonality of what it describes.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Likewise, shortages in instrumentation can disrupt the flow of case carts between operating rooms and sterile processing departments , hampering operational efficiency, causing delays, and creating unnecessary downtime. Assessing whether current equipment meets the demands of the facility’s specialty mix is crucial.

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MEDITEK

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Our surgical equipment experts are knowledgeable about the needs of ORs and can help create a harmonious flow in the operating room. The operating room ceiling system is one of the most important (and expensive) pieces of real estate in your facility.

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MEDITEK

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The operating room is an overwhelming, busy place, especially when the overarching goal is to save lives. 3 As an operating room manager, you know firsthand how challenging it is to run an OR, but throw in some inadequate surgical equipment, and your entire OR can shut down. 1 This is staggering.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Formerly, anesthetized patients who received intraoperative radiotherapy needed to be transported from the operating room to the location of the linear accelerator, but the advent of mobile accelerators now means that radiotherapy can be directly delivered to the patient in the operating room. Room Anesth.

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Anaesthesia News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Hypersensitivity reactions to the ethylene oxide used to sterilize dialysis machines, as well as adverse reactions to the specific hemodialysis membrane material polyacrylonitrile, may occur. Fluid Management and Urine Output: Indeed, most patients come to the operating room with a contracted extracellular fluid volume.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Enhancing Patient Safety with Stringent Sterile Processing Standards 2. Improving Operational Efficiency with Streamlined Instrument Processing 3. In the healthcare environment, particularly in surgical settings, sterile processing is a foundational aspect of patient safety. Table of Contents 1.

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