The authors analyzed the impacts of COVID-19 on orthopedic operating room efficiency via comparison of 14,856 surgeries performed before, during, and after the pandemic. Objective: The COVID-19 ...

A surgical technologist is a health professional who prepares an operating room (OR) before surgery. They’re a crucial part of a surgical care team, working alongside the surgeon, the surgeon’s ...

The worry begins as soon as we schedule an elective surgery — whether joint replacement, hysterectomy, hernia repair, or any of the scores of procedures that account for the 15 million operations ...

Inside Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center's second floor surgery suite, surgeons and medical teams are busy honing their critical-care skills. In one room, a retiree is getting a new nose. A few feet ...

The Board of Visitors Operation Room Simulation Lab, the fifth room in the Nursing Competencies Suite, trains students specializing in surgical or anesthesia pathways in the skills they need to be ...

Scientists have designed a new tool that works like a glue gun but prints bone grafts directly onto broken or damaged bones ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) issued an advisory to prevent and manage the rare, but devastating, occurrences of operating room fires. Robert Caplan, M.D., chair of the ASA Task ...

OCEANSIDE — Far more attention has been paid to California’ssevere shortage of nurses than to a similar scarcity of surgicaltechnicians, but MiraCosta College recently added a trainingprogram for ...