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What is an OR Nurse and What Do They Do in the Operating Room?

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

They are responsible for maintaining a sterile environment, assisting surgeons, and ensuring patient safety throughout the surgical process. This involves sterilizing instruments, setting up equipment, and ensuring all safety protocols are followed.

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Lumbar Discectomy: The Crucial Role of Surgical Assistants in Spine Surgery

Platinum Meidcal Staffing

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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Anesthesia Considerations for Radiation Therapy Patients 

Radius Anesthesia

Patient safety and the precise delivery of radiotherapy remain the primary goals of intraoperative radiotherapy, presenting key challenges to anesthesiologists, whose role is multipronged.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST

The Anesthesia Consultant

Because anesthesiologists do not scrub in a sterile fashion, it’s OK to wear your watch and ring., Inside the operating room, the scrub tech is already dressed in a sterile gown and gloves, and is preparing the instruments the surgeon will use to operate on the first patient. You leave your street clothes in your locker.

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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE 

The Anesthesia Consultant

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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12 MEDICAL INACCURACIES IN FAMOUS MOVIE SCENES. AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST’S ANALYSIS

The Anesthesia Consultant

Then he injects her IV with a syringe of adrenaline, and leaves the vital signs monitor on. The vital signs monitor shows her heart rate suddenly change to zero as she dies. The vital signs monitor continues to emit a soft high-pitched tone, but there’s no one else around to hear it. You can relax.

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Newer Supraglottic Airway Devices

Anaesthesia News

Second-generation SADs SADs that have been designed for safety and which have design features to reduce the risk of aspiration. Efficacy for ventilation is often a by-product of design for safety. The device is made of silicone (latex free) and is re-usable, after sterilization in an autoclave, up to 50 times. Brimacombe J.