operating room Articles
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Operating room cost management in cardiac surgery: a simulation study
The high variability in the required operating room (OR) time of open heart surgeries with approximately four and a half hours average overall duration is the main challenge in managing OR utilisation. We evaluate, with a discrete-event simulation model, how three different process changes – a four-day OR week, better accuracy in OR time forecasting and having anaesthesia induction take place ...
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Managing healthcare technology in quality management framework
Healthcare services available these days deploy high technology to satisfy both internal and external customers by continuously improving various quality parameters. Quality improvement in healthcare services is a complex and multidimensional task. Although various quality management tools are routinely deployed for identifying quality issues in healthcare delivery, there is absence of an ...
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Critical review on hospital surgical room and mechanical system designs
The design of HVAC systems for surgical operating rooms requires specific guidance for the design engineer in order to insure that thermal comfort and sepsis control are maintained at all times in order to protect the occupants of the room. Operating room ventilation has been through significant design improvements from the beginning of the 20th century until now. Researchers have found that the ...
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Air Quality in Operating Rooms and Surgical Suites
How to Achieve Good Indoor Air Quality in Operating Rooms There are two primary objectives in achieving acceptable air quality in the operating room: (1) control of anesthetic gases for the benefit of operating room staff, and (2) infection control for the benefit of the patient. Control of Anesthetic Gases Supply and scavenging systems, as well as general ventilation in Operating Rooms and ...
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LUMINELLE® DTx System: A Proven Solution for In-Office Hysteroscopy Procedures
An increasing number of GYN practices are moving certain surgical procedures into their office, including hysteroscopy and cystoscopy. However, the decision to move them from the operating room into the office requires a thorough examination of several key factors. The most challenging of those include the following: Uncertainty surrounding the development and implementation of anesthesia ...
By LUMINELLE
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5 Tips for Unlocking Potential & Reducing Chaos in Your OR - draft
Caresyntax interviewed Misti Mattox, Service Line Administrator at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare in Florida. Mattox was one of the early adopters of operating room (OR) data and cohort analysis to gain valuable insights to improve performance. In this blog, Mattox shares five tips for OR managers who want to leverage data to gain important insights into improving efficiency and ...
By Caresyntax
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How CoapTech turned a feeding tube innovation into a company
With CoapTech (http://www.coaptech.com/about2/), Steven Tropello and Howard Carolan are working on new technology for replacing patients' feeding tubes. The approach, called Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy, or PUG, utilizes a device with magnets that doctors can use to guide a feeding tube into place. It also features an ultrasound that allows doctors to see what is happening inside the body ...
By CoapTech
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The Pierre Oudot Hospital Center provides health care for a territory of 310,000 inhabitants in 158 municipalities. The Hospital is part of the Nord Dauphiné Hospital Group.
The challenge The Pierre Oudot Hospital was constructed in 2011 and took up the challenge of building a “full digital” establishment to meet the requirements of a connected and communicating hospital. 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 ...
By ISIS S.A.S
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Operating Room - UVC lights provide infection control, green benefits
Muskogee Community Hospital (Muskogee, OK) is using germicidal UVC (ultraviolet C) Emitters™ from Steril-Aire as part of an innovative infection control measure. The devices were installed in the air handling units and in custom-designed, ceilingmounted units in the surgical and procedural suites, marking the first time a hospital has used UVC technology in this way. Steril-Aire devices ...
By E-CO
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I)Video Management (VM) for operating theatres: Is there a standard need?
Part 1: Identify the real need Today hospitals, and in particular operating theaters, have become hubs of innovation. There is a real proliferation of solutions, functions and various technologies, with manufacturers, resellers or suppliers offering tailor-made and sometimes scalable solutions. These solutions are often captive and proprietary and do not always allow you to compose your own ...
By ISIS S.A.S
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Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Collaboration
Aiming to reduce the environmental impact of plastic waste in surgery Today, Surgical Innovations announces its collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (“CSH”) to support wider efforts in the UK and globally to reduce the environmental impact of plastic waste in surgery. This new collaboration with CSH will enable the validation of the Company’s environmental ...
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Interventional Systems 2021 Wrap-Up And Look-Ahead
It’s the beginning of a new year, so it’s also time to wrap up 2021 and have a close look into what’s coming up for 2022! 2021 sure came with a mix between fear and expectation, but we’re happy to tell you there’s more more things to be happy than sad about on our end. This one is gonna take a little longer than usual but make sure to read through the whole ...
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HYSTEROSCOPY: Bringing Procedures into the Office
Today, nearly 75% of hysteroscopy procedures in the United States are performed in hospital operating rooms or in ambulatory care centers. This raises the question of “why?”. Why is it that so many physicians are choosing to forego the convenience that in-office hysteroscopy procedures offer to patients and providers alike, especially when similar procedures—such as cystoscopy ...
By LUMINELLE
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Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: lessons learned for success
Since its introduclion approximately 20 years ago, laparoscopic cholecystectomy has rapidly become the treatment of choice Tor symptomatic cholelithiasis [1—3]. Conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy generally is performed through four small incisions in the abdominal wall [4]. Fn recent years, a less invasive method has been sought in an effort to reduce postoperative pain and ...
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Value-Based Robotics, Pt.4: Micromate™ - Bringing Usability To The Operating Room
Our Value-Based Robotics series advances towards the actual clinical use of robotics and issues concerning practicality and surgeon onboarding and training. It is generally accepted that robotic surgical systems enable minimally invasive surgery and improve outcomes, including shorter recovery times, less scarring, and reduced healthcare costs. This being said, the jury is still out on whether ...
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Nanjing Southern New Town Medical Center - Case Study
Opened in December 2018. As an important livelihood project, the Southern New Town Medical Center in the central area of the Southern New Town of Nanjing. 2.9 billion RMB has been invested to build the hospital. Large-scale comprehensive hospital, which integrates medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, rehabilitation, health care and first aid, and can accommodate 1500 beds. ...
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Study on the mutual interactions between the parameters of a CANON system and its coping strategy when operating at room temperature (15 to 25 °C) using response surface methodology
The coping strategy of a CANON (completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite) reactor working at room temperature was investigated using response surface methodology. The total nitrogen (TN) removal efficiency was taken as a dependent variable. The temperature (X), dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration (Y), and influent nitrogen loading rate (Z) were taken as independent variables. ...
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Cyber security challenges in hospitals
"In 15years, and across our fleet of more than 500 installed machines, we have had no viral infections," says Eric Lechopier, Director of Software Developmentat ISIS. This is a record that we can proudly announce at a time when cyber attacks are skyrocketing in hospitals. We do not have the solution to these attacks and we cannot guarantee that our customers will not be attacked. What we can do ...
By ISIS S.A.S
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Making the Business Case for Office-Based Hysteroscopy Procedures
For OB/GYN practices looking at the possibility of providing office-based hysteroscopy procedures, the benefits such a move would offer patients is a primary consideration. However, practices must weigh those against multiple economic factors—including capital outlay and reimbursement. To help practices make a more informed decision, this paper provides an overview of the business case for ...
By LUMINELLE
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5 Ways Medical Students can Practice Surgery at Home
Medical students can hone their skills not just in college or operating rooms but also at home. At home, there are several ways to practice surgery. Here are 5 of them. With a Suture Kit A suture kit can work wonders in improving hand positioning, forceps finger placement and action, among others. It’s reusable, and a good one has everything you need to close nearly all types of wounds. ...
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