I’m a surgeon, and I couldn’t be more excited about the potential for communications tools to democratize access to essential knowledge in my profession. Throughout the history of modern surgery, ...

Cincinnati Children's teamed up with Philips to create the first Azurion hybrid operating room. This will combine tools from surgery and interventional radiology to create a more effective way to ...

Providing surgical treatment for patients, the operating room always makes overwhelming contributions to and figures prominently in the thriving and forging for a hospital running 1,2,3. With the ...

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Surgical site infections have an incidence of around 3% (1–7%) after orthopedic surgery 1, mostly (~ 20%) caused by the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus 2. They can be classified according to anatomical ...

A study published in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal is believed to be the first of its kind to link operating room design to the length of knee- and hip-replacement surgeries. The ...

A new study has directly linked operating room design to the length of surgeries, with implications both for patient health and hospitals' bottom lines. Xiaobo Quan is proud that his study is the ...

LAWRENCE – Xiaobo Quan is proud that his study is the first of its kind to link operating room design to the length of knee- and hip-replacement surgeries. Thus, the University of Kansas School of ...

Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, is regional vice president of operations for Health Inventures. Q: What is a good benchmark for maximum operating room utilization in an ambulatory surgery center ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. While hospitals have been overburdened, intensive care units have ...