Starting this week, patients at SVMC can go under the knife — or rather, under the da Vinci 5 robot, controlled by a surgeon ...

Community Hospital closed its operating room last Thursday after staff discovered contaminants in its sterile processing ...

"VitVio raises $8m in seed funding to automate operating room tasks" was originally created and published by Hospital ...

State inspectors have revealed that UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital’s week-long shutdown of nonemergency surgeries ...

Background Studies in operating rooms (OR) show that minor disruptions tend to group together to result in serious adverse events such as surgical errors. Understanding the characteristics of these ...

A scrub tech helps prepare patients for surgery and hands sterile instruments to the surgeon. Scrub techs are responsible for keeping the operating room clean and preventing infections during surgery.

Recently, at a laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, a machine rewrote medical history. A pair of robotic arms, guided not by a surgeon’s steady hand but its own artificial intelligence, removed a ...

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 ...

Dr. Brian Pettiford is a surgical oncologist with a focus on thoracic surgery at Ochsner Health. Pettiford, originally from Tifton, Georgia, is an honors graduate of Morehouse College, where he ...

As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burnt out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get cancelled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That’s the argument that UC San ...

1 Operating Room, The First Affiliated Hospital of Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China. 2 Department of Orthopedics, Gongan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jingzhou, China. Study ...