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Summary As a medical resident, investing in the right surgical loupe and LED headlight is a crucial step in ensuring precision, comfort, and long-term health. Loupes can enhance your vision, allowing you to perform procedures with greater accuracy. However, choosing the right pair requires careful consideration of several factors, such as working distance, depth of field, and magnification. For ...
Over the past decade, cloud computing has undergone remarkable expansion. The collective revenue generated by AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft surged from $49 billion in 2018 to an astonishing $206 billion in 2022.[i] Projections from Future Market Insights indicate that the revenue from cloud services is poised to maintain an impressive average annual growth rate of 21%, reaching a staggering ...
This barrier can also be opened and presented aseptically in operating rooms and other healthcare settings. Protective Packaging: This packaging protects the sterile barrier system from damage. ...
In the ever-evolving field of surgery, the integration of data and technology has ushered in a new era of surgical training and education, where precision and proficiency are elevated. We recently had the privilege of speaking with Peter Nau, MD, MS, FACS, Clinical Professor of Surgery-Gastrointestinal, Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Surgical Director of the Digestive Health Center, ...
The following article is a repost of an interview that originally appeared in OR Today “Spotlight On: John W. Cromwell, MD” with Caresyntax customer, John Cromwell, MD, FACS, associate chief medical officer and director of surgical quality and safety at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. ...
Mattox was one of the early adopters of operating room (OR) data and cohort analysis to gain valuable insights to improve performance. ...
Caresyntax hosted a roundtable discussion on how digital transformation—specifically the collection of data in the surgical suite—can drive both quality and return on investment (ROI). The participants included a panel of esteemed healthcare professionals in surgery, nursing, investing, sales, healthcare technology, and academics. The following is a summary of the new pathways and ...
Maintaining sterile storage conditions is necessary to protect medical instruments, drugs, surgical implants, and other equipment from contaminants. ARON guidelines on sterilization are straightforward: temperatures should not exceed 72°F (22°C) to 78°F (26°C), relative humidity should not exceed 60%, and airflow should be positive pressure with at least four total air changes per ...
Helping Students Navigate CareersNavigating careers in a complex job market is much more difficult for today’s students than in the past. Their talents are in high demand and they have choices that were not available to their parents or ...
The equipment is to be arranged on the third floor platform of the drying operation room. The exhaust gas (temperature 60℃-90℃) from the owner's drying equipment passes through the gas collecting pipeline to the wet dust removal equipment of the wet dust removal tower. ...
Airsafe medical aerosol high-flow suction systemshave been designed in 2020 in response to the need to decrease risk of exposure for healthcare operators. The constant increase of hospital admissions required a further effort to healthcare facilities, for which it is a necessity to put together personal protective equipments (PPE as masks, gloves, visors, scrubs, etc.) already supplied by ...
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AirSafe catalogue 2021 is finally on-line and downloadable. Discover the entire AirSafe line, completed with extractors, plants and filtering systems designed and produced for active protection from potentially infected aerosol in medical contexts. Airsafe not only offers mobile aerosol extractors, but also versions wall- and ceiling-mounted to save floor space and centralized plants to cover ...
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This new collaboration with CSH will enable the validation of the Company’s environmental messaging and demonstrate the quantifiable cost and environmental savings from a ‘greener’ operating room. This data will then help develop information and training for NHS hospitals and staff as they seek to fulfil obligations on sustainability in the NHS, ...
SETTING: Single institution; cardiac catheterization laboratory, and operating room. PATIENTS: Fifty patients weighing 3-20 kg with baseline saturations less than 90% undergoing surgical or catheterization procedure. ...
In summer specifically, you will find that the recommended room temperature can range from 23°C-27°C in the ER, throughout all areas of the hospital, especially X-ray and treatment rooms. ...
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Finally, for some patients, having a procedure in an operating room isn’t preferred—or even possible. For example, vulnerable patients (such as those who are elderly or who are pregnant) can be at a higher risk of contracting infectious diseases (including COVID-19) or might not be good candidates for anesthesia. ...
However, the decision to move them from the operating room into the office requires a thorough examination of several key factors. ...
By implementing the PACS and phasing out radiological films, the hospital has created the conditions for the multimedia environment in the operating room. All the rooms are multi-purpose, making it possible to host all the surgeries performed (orthopedics, digestive, urology, vascular, gynecology, ophthalmology). ...
Treatment of pediatric soft tissue wounds presents additional complexities and highlights unique requirements. This piece provides a synopsis of an article [1] published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports by Dr. Kyle Crowley and his colleagues from the Division of Paediatric Surgery at Townsville University Hospital in Queensland, Australia. NovoSorb® BTM, a biodegradable ...
Power reliability for hospitals continues to be transformed by the ongoing evolution of backup power solutions. It also continues to be challenged by global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and more frequent power outages. That is what ASCO Power Technologies discussed with Jacek Grabowski, Senior Project Engineer at Leach Wallace Associates, during a recent ASCO Power Industry Perspective ...