On average, 51 Million surgical inpatient procedures are performed in the United States each year. With the increased focus on wellness, preventative, and team-based medicine, an introduction of new ...

Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., opened a new $3 million hybrid operating room in May, combining the capabilities of a cardiac catheterization lab and the disinfected environment of ...

An operating room fire that started on a patient’s abdomen. Surgical placement of a drainage tube in the wrong kidney. An unnecessary gall bladder-related procedure. Repeated failures to document that ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Artisight is the first Smart Hospital platform capable of autonomously documenting operating room activity into a patient's electronic health record (EHR) using ...

The concept of a hybrid operating room is new to health care and is an advanced procedural space that takes a traditional operating room and combines it with an image-guided interventional suite. This ...

Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s Surgical Technology program graduates weave their knowledge of human anatomy, surgical procedures, tools and technologies to support a surgeon in the operating ...

About 20 years ago, a medical device startup called Intuitive Surgical debuted the da Vinci robot and changed surgical practices in operating rooms across the United States. The da Vinci ushered in ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — After a successful grand opening of its new operating room at the Lake Baldwin VA Clinic last week, on Monday, the first patient was seen and operated on. The cutting-edge facility ...

Adherence to proven protocols for disinfecting surgeons' hands, patients' skin, and operating room surfaces could help to halt the spread of dangerous Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) pathogens in ...

In the past decade, the need for anesthesia services outside of the operating room (OR) has increased dramatically. While this can be partially attributed to the expansion of gastrointestinal ...