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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. 1] Arora 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

However, less than 20-30% of reusable instruments supplied to a surgery are used on average. We develop a solution methodology that scales to thousands of surgeries, thousands of instruments, and hundreds of surgical trays. We perform extensive out-of-sample testing of our solution.

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

The Anesthesia Consultant

An important question for many Americans is, “Is it safe for me to have surgery during this COVID pandemic?” The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? It depends.

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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 properly certified assistants at surgery usually makes the operation go faster, safer and smoothly. 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.

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

IU School of Medicine

Boris, who specializes in urologic oncology surgery, wondered if a simple test—such as a urine test—could be developed that would help him and other physicians create personalized treatment plans for patients with renal tumors. During a two-year stint at the National Institutes of Health, he focused on hereditary kidney cancer.