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How Psychological State Affects the Operating Room (OR)

DFW Anesthesia Professionals

Many factors affect the operating room (OR) and surgery success, ranging from patient-related factors to resource-related factors to even clinician-related factors. In the operating room (OR), teamwork is crucial for ensuring patient safety. The American Journal of Surgery, vol. 24–30, [link] 2. Arora, Sonal, et al.

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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. million patients each year.

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Data-Driven Surgical Tray Optimization to Improve Operating Room Efficiency

OpFlow

We perform extensive out-of-sample testing of our solution. We formulate a data-driven mathematical optimization model for surgical tray configuration and assignment with the goal of reducing costs of unused instruments, such as sterilization, instrument purchase, and tray assembly costs.

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Capacity management: Integrated patient flow

walkerproject

This is not about the capacity of the individual clinics, the operating room or the emergency room. It is not everyday life for the medical department to take in elective procedures and bring them to the operating room. Once again one of these “strangers” The ordered blood sample is nearly forgotten.

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NON-PHYSICIAN SURGICAL ASSISTANT UTILIZATION AND EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS – Luis F Aragon, CSA, LSA, RSA

NSAA

Having expert assistance can translate into shortening the time needed for anesthesia, increasing the safety of the procedure, reducing the surgical complication rates, and thus decreasing operating room costs. The potential cost direct savings would be between $8-$10 million dollars for the sampling of 15228 cases.

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

The Anesthesia Consultant

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. The inside of the healthcare facility will be cleaned prior to any patient care, and will be recleaned after each patient leaves an operating room.

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IU physicians, Purdue scientists collaborate to develop a test to detect kidney cancer

IU School of Medicine

After earning a second Walther grant of $200,000, the group has been conducting experiments to test their theory using much larger sample sizes across the multiple renal tumor subtypes. Boris spent time in the Tao lab, gaining hands-on experience studying proteins.