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Standard Written Checklists Can Improve Patient Safety During Surgical Crises
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Source Newsroom: Newswise When doctors, nurses and other hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond when a patient experiences cardiac arrest, severe allergic reaction, bleeding followed by an irregular heart beat or
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Complex Spinal Surgeries with Two Attending Physicians, Instead of One, Benefit Patients
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Most spinal surgeries in the United States are performed by teams led by a single attending surgeon one top-level doctor who has completed medical school, residency and other specialized training. In 2007, two spinal surgeons in the Departments of
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Aspen surgeons find precision with high-tech robotic arm
Denver :: CO :: USA | 5 months ago
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Orthopedic surgeons at Aspen Valley Hospital have teamed up with a new player in the operating room, one that's making them better at what they do...Or, as Dr. Tomas Pevny of Aspen Orthopaedic Associates, suggested, perhaps the surgeons are assisting
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Shopping for items in the operating room
Nashua :: NH :: USA | 5 months ago
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Now consider a hospital my hospital, for example. Same problem. Many departments. Many items. In the operating room where I work, the options for suture are mind-boggling. There's the variety of sizes, colors and needles and types. There's
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Sarasota Memorial stepping up cardiac care capability
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 6 months ago
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Patients too frail for traditional heart surgery will have new options with the opening this month of a hybrid operating room at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. The $4.5 million operating room will allow surgeons, cardiologists and other specialists to
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Young Surgeons Face Special Concerns with Operating Room Distractions
Corvallis :: OR :: USA | 6 months ago
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A study has found that young, less-experienced surgeons made major surgical mistakes almost half the time during a simulated gall bladder removal when they were distracted by noises, questions, conversation or other commotion in the operating room.
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At St. Paul's Hospital, cochlear implants create sound where once there was silence
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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You sound like an alien, Justine Haines told her audiologist on Monday. It wasn't a flip comment, but instead the best description she could find for the first sounds she just heard through a new cochlear implant, louder and much different than the
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Oral board exams: A window into how you behave in the operating room
Nashua :: NH :: USA | 7 months ago
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I thought that everyone in the lunch room would turn suddenly, throw their reheated pasta and cafeteria sandwiches high aloft with glee and balloons would gush from the cracks between the fluorescent lights on the ceiling as the whole world burst
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Covidien Unveils Sonicision��� Cordless Ultrasonic Dissection Device and iDrive��� Ultra Powered Stapling System at 2012 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress
Alexandria :: VA :: USA | 8 months ago
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Covidien Unveils Sonicision Cordless Ultrasonic Dissection Device and iDrive Ultra Powered Stapling System at 2012 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress New cordless instruments offer surgeons increased freedom to move and position devices,
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'Ghost surgery': When your surgeon isn't the one you expected
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
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But in some cases, patient advocates say, there can be an actual bait-and-switch, when a prominent surgeon promises to carry out the procedure but does not. It's not clear how often such "ghost surgeries" occur, because they are not tracked or
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