Combining perioperative comfort care with targeted operating room nursing reduces stress, pain, and recovery times in ...

In every operating room, bright lights shine on the surgeon, but the real guardians of patient safety often stand ...

While unnecessary opioid exposure is a big reason behind the opioid epidemic in the U.S., we believe that non-opioid directives that allow patients to opt out of opioids in the operating room may ...

By Page Leggett Cale Banks makes it a practice to get to work early. The assistant nurse manager for the operating rooms at Novant Health Rowan Medical Center oversees eight ORs. “We perform 25 ...

Kaci Whitby, a patient, stands in a pre-op room at the Huntsman Cancer Institute on Wednesday. The operating rooms in the Kathryn F. Kirk Center, an expansion of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, are ...

The researchers conducted the pilot study in five patients undergoing ventilation in the ICU after general surgery or trauma. The researchers recorded patient vital signs and the level of sedation ...

The Miami Township Fire Department in Clermont County was pioneering a new life-saving initiative as the first in southwest Ohio.

By the end of the two-hour period, the patients needed approximately 33 percent less sedation than they had prior to the classical music. According to the report, the effect of the music treatment ...