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What makes a neurosurgeon?

Neurosurgery

The shopkeeper is very generous and gives you the opportunity to sample every flavor. However, at the end of this sampling, you can only leave the store with one flavor. Reactions to this metaphor vary — it may seem exciting to try the samples. It may seem fraught to make such a lasting decision based on a small sample size.

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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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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. alone, lung nodules are found in over 1.5

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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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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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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.