Operating Room Articles
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Designing Sustainable and Resilient Surgical Suites for the Future
Highlights from the Economist Impact Events panel discussion Bjoern von Siemens, Caresyntax Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer, recently joined a panel discussion hosted by the Economist. This blog highlights his thoughts on designing sustainable and resilient surgical suites for the ...
By Caresyntax
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Speeding Up Healthcare Innovation Leveraging Cloud Technology
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 ...
By Caresyntax
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Healthcare Packaging Validation: Assuring Patient Safety
Sterile medical packaging plays a vital role in protecting patients from harmful bacteria and viruses. However, many processes can damage the integrity of sterile packaging as products move through the supply chain. Improper sterilization techniques, mishandling during shipping, and other mishaps can degrade packaging and cause loss of sterility. Regulatory agencies require all sterile packaging ...
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Data-Driven Surgical Education: A Conversation with Dr. Peter Nau
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, ...
By Caresyntax
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OR Today Spotlight on John W. Cromwell MD
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. ...
By Caresyntax
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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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MedTech Round Table: The ROI of Surgical Digital Transformation
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 ...
By Caresyntax
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How Sterile Storage Cabinets Protect Your Medical Supplies Through Multiple Levels of Functionality
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 ...
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Storing Sterile Medical Supplies: It’s About Controlling the Environment
It is incumbent on hospitals and other medical facilities to maintain sterility wherever needed to keep patients and staff safe. This goes for operating and exam rooms. Healthcare institutions must also safely store surgical scrubs, head covers, sterile surgical implants, equipment, and medication. The goal is to protect these items from contaminants like dust, viruses, and bacteria so they ...
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Difference Between Gas and Liquid Chromatography
What is gas chromatography and liquid chromatography? Gas chromatography is a chromatographic method that uses gas as a mobile phase. Sample flows through the gas system and is gasified before finally entering a chromatographic column filled with a filler to achieve effective separation. Gas chromatography has the advantages of high sensitivity, small sample usage, strong separation ability, good ...
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Gas Chromatography vs. Liquid Chromatography
What is gas chromatography and liquid chromatography? Gas chromatography is a chromatographic method that uses gas as a mobile phase. The sample flows through the gas system and is gasified before finally entering a chromatographic column filled with a filler to achieve effective separation. Gas chromatography has the advantages of high sensitivity, small sample usage, strong separation ability, ...
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How to remove dust in pharmaceutical production plants?
Description of dust removal plan The pharmaceutical factory engaged in the production of traditional Chinese medicine granules will produce a large amount of bran-containing powder at the end of the steam dryer. This kind of dust produces a large amount and has a certain viscosity. Explain the solution to the dust removal of the pharmaceutical factory. Technical Design Notes After on-site ...
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How to choose the right pushbuttons/pilot light’s color for your machine interface?
For anyone who is not involved in the industrial world, being in front of a machine can be disconcerting. And the control panel, even though it is often clear and uncluttered, can still quickly look like a Christmas tree to those who do not know how to figure it out. Between the different HMI screens, the buttons of all colors and the indicator lights and tower lights multiplying the flashing and ...
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VX400M with activated carbons, successfully applied to cosmetic surgery
Cosmetic surgeries involving laser and ectrosurgery activate thermal destruction of dermal tissue, producing harmful fumes. As a fact, exhalations coming from destroyed organic tissue can contain toxic gases, benzene fumes, hydrocyanic acid, formaldehyde, bio-aerosol and even cellular material alive or dead (including blood) and viruses. When inhaled in high concentrations, those fumes can ...
By Airsafe
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Aerosol suction system: active protection for healthcare operators
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 ...
By Airsafe
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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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Making hospitals more resilient - 6 ways IoT-enabled power and building management systems help
When we think about critical facilities, hospitals are at the top of the list. That’s because healthcare services need to be available for us 24/7. Any event interrupting availability can impact entire communities, even putting lives at risk, and the pandemic has clearly illustrated this. Reliable healthcare services are dependent upon resilient facility infrastructures. ...
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UbiBot Products Support Intelligent Hospital and Clinic Operation
Temperature as well as relative humidity can affect the airborne survival of viruses, bacteria and even fungi. As such, environmental control in hospitals is important because disease transmission from the aerosol or airborne infection is possible. Environmental exposure is a common hazard for organisms and throughout this can pass on from one host to another. Factors such as temperature, ...
By UbiBot
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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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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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