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The Operating Room of the Future Versus the Future of the Operating Room
Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 2017Technological advancement in the operating room is evolving into a dynamic system mirroring that of the aeronautics industry. Through data visualization, information is continuously being captured, collected, and stored on a scalable informatics platform for rapid, intuitive, iterative learning.
Kassam, Amin B +9 more
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Journal of Surgical Research, 2010
The operating room (OR) represents a key engine of performance and growth for most hospitals, and its success is vital to the financial viability of the parent institution. Yet, the OR can also be a considerable drain on the hospital’s finances, because surgical procedures are becoming increasingly complex and technologically-intensive, with the ...
Kyung W, Park +3 more
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The operating room (OR) represents a key engine of performance and growth for most hospitals, and its success is vital to the financial viability of the parent institution. Yet, the OR can also be a considerable drain on the hospital’s finances, because surgical procedures are becoming increasingly complex and technologically-intensive, with the ...
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Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 2018
The operating room is the financial hub of any hospital, and maximizing operating room efficiency has important implications for cost savings, patient satisfaction, and medical team morale. Over the past decade, manufacturing principles and processes such as Lean and Six Sigma have been applied to various aspects of healthcare including the operating ...
David H, Rothstein, Mehul V, Raval
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The operating room is the financial hub of any hospital, and maximizing operating room efficiency has important implications for cost savings, patient satisfaction, and medical team morale. Over the past decade, manufacturing principles and processes such as Lean and Six Sigma have been applied to various aspects of healthcare including the operating ...
David H, Rothstein, Mehul V, Raval
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Ergonomics in the operating room
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2012Surgical staff is considered to have several ergonomic risk factors, but their physical workload and musculoskeletal health have seldom been evaluated. Clinical examinations of neck and upper extremities were performed in 99 theatre nurses and 93 assisting nurses, all females.
Jenny Gremark, Simonsen +2 more
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Operating room: Operating room utilization
Hospital Topics, 1975(1975). Operating room: Operating room utilization. Hospital Topics: Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 42-45.
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The American Journal of Surgery, 2018
Climate change will affect most populations in the next decades and put the health of billions of people at risk. Health care facilities represent a significant source of pollution around the world and contribute to environmental changes. To address this topic, we performed a review of the available literature on tactics to reduce operating room (OR ...
Camila R. Guetter +8 more
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Climate change will affect most populations in the next decades and put the health of billions of people at risk. Health care facilities represent a significant source of pollution around the world and contribute to environmental changes. To address this topic, we performed a review of the available literature on tactics to reduce operating room (OR ...
Camila R. Guetter +8 more
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Simulation in the operating room
Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2015Simulation has become a significant training tool in the operating room (OR). It can be used in both simple task training and complex scenarios. The challenge for simulation in the OR is how to translate that which is learned, and perceived to beneficial, into behavioral change and improved patient outcomes.
Andrew W, Murray +3 more
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Hygiene and room climate in the operating room
Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies, 2003The ventilation system is not the most important source to cause surgical site infections via the air. More important is the skin of both staff and patients. The literature did not reveal any reduction of the risk of surgical site infections resulting from the employment of ultra-clean air-systems during surgical procedures, the one exception being ...
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Scavenging in the operating room
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2003The use of inhalation general anesthetic gases has led to contamination of the operating room environment. Chronic exposure to these agents has been associated with a number of adverse health effects. Controversy remains with regard to these health effects, and whether further reducing the level of operating room contamination should be a high priority.
Moeen K, Panni, Stephen B, Corn
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Electrocution in the Operating Room
Anesthesiology, 1973The manner in which a patient sustained an electrical shock injury from improperly wired equipment during the course of an operation was described in order to acquaint others with a potentially hazardous situation. A patient requiring surgical treatment had the ground plate of an electrocautery unit placed under her buttocks and the electrodes of an ...
D H, Atkin, L R, Orkin
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