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Data-Driven Surgical Tray Optimization to Improve Operating Room Efficiency

OpFlow

Hospitals spend several million dollars a year on instrument sterilization, instrument tray assembly, and instrument repurchase costs. We perform extensive out-of-sample testing of our solution. Wood, MD, MBA, FACS ABSTRACT Surgical procedures account for over 60% of the operating cost of a hospital.

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Bioburden and Biofilm: Know Your Enemy

Incision

These are words no Sterile Processing Manager wants to hear. These are two of the strongest and most ruthless enemies facing the Sterile Processing Professional. Visible and invisible bioburden left over from surgery must be removed through decontamination or the instrument cannot be properly sterilized.

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The Blank Slate Part 1

IU School of Medicine

“Is there wireless? And, if so, who gets access? What security measures do we need to consider when corresponding?”

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How Psychological State Affects the Operating Room (OR)

DFW Anesthesia Professionals

Surgeons use a Polar S710i heart rate monitor for continuous tracking, and saliva samples for cortisol analysis are collected before and after each surgery. The ISAT evaluates stress using both objective measures such as heart rate and cortisol levels, and subjective reports.

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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE 

The Anesthesia Consultant

Astronauts will be trained in the insertion of IV cannulae, and the sampling of blood for diagnostic tests. Scientists have developed a system named IVGEN (Intravenous Fluid Generation) to prepare sterile IV normal saline from space station drinking water. Bleeding in microgravity causes domes to form around the bleeding site.

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35 Nurse Resume Examples for 2024

EARN Cares

At EARN Cares, we've helped thousands of nurses through our peer-RN network and have taken our experience, lessons and adapted them below to help curate 36 sample nurse resume examples. View nurse midwife RN Sample Resume 5. View Critical care RN Sample Resume 7. View surgical services/operating room RN Sample Resume 8.

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

The Anesthesia Consultant

We do send blood samples from a radial artery to a lab to diagnose blood levels, but the lab results take time to be processed. One answer is that the singing anesthesiologist is not separated from the sterile surgical field by the usual vertical barrier of sterile drapes known as the “ether screen.”