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

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 ...

"We clean and prep and drape with sterile draping and sterile instruments, just like we do in the operating room," Irwin said. "Most procedures take, I'd say, between five and maybe 15 minutes." ...

We believe that opioids serve an essential tool in the operating room for many patients, and avoiding them for certain cases can make it difficult if not impossible to avoid harming patients.

Operating Room As you participate in the experiential learning activities in the SIM lab spaces, one distinctive opportunity is to learn to practice in a fully equipped Operating Room (OR). With ...

In a large New York healthcare system, 11.4% of intrauterine device (IUD) removals required complex procedures, with age and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...