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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. However, less than 20-30% of reusable instruments supplied to a surgery are used on average. We perform extensive out-of-sample testing of our solution.

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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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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. Surgeons use a Polar S710i heart rate monitor for continuous tracking, and saliva samples for cortisol analysis are collected before and after each surgery.

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The Blank Slate Part 1

IU School of Medicine

We also need cages for the mice, food and water, all of the items required for surgery, all of the PPE or P ersonal P rotection E quipment that protects us from the mice and while also keeping the mice “clean” so that we don’t accidentally introduce something into spaceflight which could infect the astronauts. “Is there wireless?

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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE 

The Anesthesia Consultant

Because the spaceship is more than 200 days away from Earth, the physicians instruct the crew to proceed with surgery and anesthesia in outer space. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Astronauts will be trained in the insertion of IV cannulae, and the sampling of blood for diagnostic tests.

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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. Producer Joana Vicente told Variety that Awake “will do to surgery what Jaws did to swimming in the ocean.” If you’re a healthy patient undergoing routine surgery, the answer is no.