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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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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. Assessment of Stress and Teamwork in the Operating Room: An Exploratory Study.”

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Human factors and peri-operative care

The Anesthesia Blog

They found that, after controlling for socio-economic characteristics, comorbidities and other established risk factors, there were lower odds of patients developing persistent postoperative opioid use with tapentadol compared with oxycodone in those that received modified release opioids at discharge and those undergoing orthopaedic surgery.

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How “Surgery as Unusual” is Like Business as Unusual 

Goldfinch Health

One example appears to be surgery. The more I’ve learned about surgery, the more I recognize there is a dichotomy: “surgery as usual” vs. “surgery as unusual”. A major difference is if the procedure will be performed following standard surgical procedures or using Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols.

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Data-Driven Surgical Tray Optimization to Improve Operating Room Efficiency

OpFlow

Submitted to Operations Research manuscript OPRE-2021-06-370 Vinayak Deshpande, PhD Nishanth Mundru, PhD Sandeep Rath, PhD Martyn Knowles, MD, MBA, FACS Benjamin C. Wood, MD, MBA, FACS ABSTRACT Surgical procedures account for over 60% of the operating cost of a hospital. 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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First Annual Surgeon Compensation Survey

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

The STS’s 2023 Cardiothoracic Surgeon Compensation Report affirmed cardiothoracic surgeon compensation commensurate with the many years of specialized training required to successfully perform high-risk, life-saving cardiac, thoracic, and congenital heart surgeries. Workload is not reflected in the report, but U.S.-based

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