Franciscan Skemp equipment to go to Indonesia Dec 30, 2008
A doctor often performs two surgeries at once in the same operating room, she said. Their beds are metal, and they use sticks to prop up the head, she said. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Injury-plagued path full of lessons for Byers Dec 30, 2008
" While Byers' journey through Los Angeles is filled with enough drama it could make a decent screenplay, he said he would never trade his experience. He said he couldn't ask for more with regards to getting his MBA and what he's learned about the game. And while all the hours in rehab and trips to the operating room were mentally tough, Byers said they've taught him more about life than any book or class. "One thing you realize as you grow older is things never happen as you expect them to... (Daily Collegian, PA)
Family gives thanks for heart that saved son's life Dec 30, 2008
Xander's life is a testament to the magnanimity of the donor family, perfect precision and co-ordination in the Stollery Children's Hospital operating room in Edmonton, and a certain amount of good fortune. First detected at 20 weeks into Ms. Marten's pregnancy, Xander's heart defect was the size of the point of a ballpoint pen. (Globe and Mail)
Court rules in doctors favor Dec 30, 2008
The Rhinelander Daily News - Online news and information for the Rhinelander, Wisconsin region. Last Updated: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:17 AM CST Court rules in doctors favor. (Forest Republican, WI)
After scare, a new look at life Dec 26, 2008
The next thing he knew, he was being wheeled out of an operating room with tubes attached everywhere. He had suffered severe cardiac arrest and had emergency surgery for a quintuple bypass at Massachusetts General Hospital. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
YEAR IN REVIEW 2008 Dec 26, 2008
A doctor made inappropriate comments and took a cell phone photo while working in an operating room at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, according to a report from the state s medical registration board, leading to his suspension from the Hallmark Health system. Kids packed the grand opening of the Melrose Rotary Skate Park, located between Lewis Monk Field and the MDC Pool on Tremont Street, on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 25, making full use of the ramps and rails to perform a variety of tricks,... (Melrose Free Press, MA)
Robert Leffert, 75, leading surgeon at MGH on repairing arms, shoulders Dec 25, 2008
Dr. Leffert's sister, Joan Bolker of Newton Highlands, recalled in an e-mail that her brother "exercised a lifelong passion for photography - at 12 he began his own business photographing babies. His portfolio includes pictures from his time serving with the Marines as a surgeon in Vietnam, from the operating room at the MGH, from his travels with his wife, . . . and from the Berkshires, where he had a country house.". She added that spending time with his two grandsons "was one of the greatest... (Boston Globe)
Advanced Imaging Technology Improves Spinal Surgery Outcome Dec 25, 2008
Not only is the image less detailed, but both patients and the operating room staff can be exposed to radiation and must use lead clothing for protection, Dr. Nottmeier says. Almost all patients in this study were given a CT scan following surgery so that a radiologist could independently determine how well the screws were placed. (Science Daily)
Grady surgeon in Iraq finds 'opportunity to give back' Dec 25, 2008
You have to decide who needs the OR (operating room) right now ... The sickest person goes to the operating room first. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Robbed by rare virus, boy gets his voice back Dec 23, 2008
"They're in the operating room every two weeks to save their life. ... Then, there are children like Joey who have the disease when they're very young and grow out of it by the time they are older adolescents or teenagers.". Though he's required fewer operations during the last couple of years, the surgeries altered Joey's voice. (CNN)
* Family of patient who died after fire threatens to sue Dec 22, 2008
The cancer patient, surnamed Chang, was undergoing a relatively minor surgery when a fire broke out near the operating room on Wednesday By Shelley Huang STAFF REPORTER Monday, Dec 22, 2008, Page 3 ... The esophageal cancer patient, surnamed Chang, was undergoing surgery on Wednesday night when a fire broke out near the operating rooms ... The reason that another patient, who was also being operated on when the fire broke out, survived was because his operating room was closer to the escape... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Heart-felt thanks for greatest Christmas gift Dec 22, 2008
I got into the operating room and, basically, from my perspective, the lights went out, he said. Toomsen was taken to the operating room at 7 p.m., his wife, Bobbie, said. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Cigarroa tapped as next UT chancellor Dec 20, 2008
The governing board of the UT system voted unanimously on Dec. 18 on Cigarroa, who also is a pediatric transplant surgeon the only medical center president who continued to keep his hands in the operating room. There is a 21-day waiting period before the regents can make an official appointment. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
Surgeons Describe Operation to Transplant a Dead Woman's Face Onto a Living Recipient Dec 20, 2008
The facial tissue was transferred to her operating room just past 5 o'clock the next morning. For nearly three more hours, surgeons connected the patient's blood vessels to the facial graft to restore circulation. (Washington Post -- Technology)
Brother goes to operating room with knife wound Dec 20, 2008
Plack said Jeremiah Lopez "went directly into the operating room last night.". Reach Adam Madison at amadison@triplicate. (Daily Triplicate)
Burt-Watts snags Dell Children's expansion contract Dec 19, 2008
The operating room will include a state-of-the-art movable MRI machine, which will allow surgeons to safely image patients during brain surgery. The convergence of surgery and imaging are resulting in innovative spaces, said Shane Watts, founder and vice-president, Burt-Watts Industries. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Transplant surgeon acquitted in case involving potential organ ... Dec 19, 2008
In his testimony, Roozrokh said that the operating room staff was so confused that he had just one ethical choice: Step in to ease what pain and terror Navarro might have been silently experiencing. He admitted at one point calling the medications "candy," a joke he said he regretted. (Los Angeles Times)
* NTU hospital cancer patient dies after fire disrupts surgery Dec 19, 2008
The man, suffering from esophageal cancer, was one of two patients being operated on when a fire broke out at around 7:22pm on Wednesday in the operating room on the fourth floor of the hospitals new building, the hospital said. The automatic sprinkler system was activated after the fire started, but smoke continued to bellow into the operating theaters where six surgeons and five nurses were performing surgery on the patient and another patient suffering from heart disease. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Surgeon found not guilty in transplant case Dec 19, 2008
Navarro s organs were never harvested because he didn t die within the allotted time after his breathing tube was removed in the operating room. Navarro died Feb. 4 in the intensive care unit about eight hours after being removed from life support. (Santa Maria Times)
Today's Stories Dec 18, 2008
Georgia Tech Club of Augusta Meet and Greet: 5:45pm - 7pm Partrid. Third Thursdays networking and social hour: 6 p.m., Vallarta's, 2. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Surgeons discuss landmark face transplant Dec 18, 2008
Surgeons rotated in and out of the operating room, taking turns fitting together layers of bone, muscle and skin like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Siemionow spent decades preparing for the surgery, practicing on animals and doing trial runs on cadavers. (Los Angeles Times)
Device could help reduce permanent damage Dec 18, 2008
Although other kinds of heart pumps must be implanted in the operating room, both the balloon pump and Impella are snaked into the heart through a large artery in the groin, without major surgery, creating the possibility the procedures may one day be done at smaller, community hospitals ... I want to be able to take care of cardiac problems that were normally taken care of in the operating room, Lasorda said. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
Face transplant ends 20-year wait Dec 18, 2008
In an adjoining operating room, another team began to remove the scar tissue that had covered the concavity in the center of the recipient's face. For years, she had lived with vision in only one eye, no cheekbones, no nose, no upper jaw and no upper lip. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Houston doctors give little girl a new face Dec 18, 2008
In the operating room, doctors had to remove a portion of Ebele s brain, which was dead. They moved the bones of the face together and rebuilt her nose and eyelids all the while taking care not to let contamination get into her brain. (KHOU.com, TX)
HEALTH: Veteran nurse enjoys career as integral member of surgical team. Dec 17, 2008
Helen Evans, RN, has worked in the operating room at Capital Region Medical Center since 1987, when it was Charles E. Still Hospital ... All of Evans' career has been spent in the operating rooms at various facilities. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Back from bankruptcy Dec 17, 2008
Executives hope changes at the hospital -- including the expected reopening of the operating room and upgraded patient rooms -- will bring back patients who previously chose other hospitals ... Mike Enquist, operating room manager, is still putting away boxes of equipment in the new operating room at Coalinga Regional Medical Center ... Mike Enquist, operating room manager, is still putting away boxes of equipment in the new operating room at Coalinga Regional Medical Center. (Fresno Bee)
LSU interim hospital gets highest grade for trauma care Dec 16, 2008
"We keep an operating room open all the time, 24 hours a day for the trauma patients.". Patients in need of trauma care who are not within 50 minutes of a Level One Trauma Center are usually taken to a community hospital and later transported to a Level One Trauma Center. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Jury deliberates fate of transplant doctor Dec 16, 2008
(AP) - A jury has began deliberating the fate of a transplant surgeon accused of trying to hasten the death of a patient in a San Luis Obispo operating room ... Navarro, who suffered from a debilitating neurological condition, was in a coma after a heart attack when he was tak 00004000 en to the operating room. (KLAS-TV.com, NV)
New Imaging Tool May Cut Down on Breast Cancer Surgeries Dec 16, 2008
Inside the operating room, Gore's surgeon, Dr. Lee Wilke of Duke University Medical Center, wonders the same thing ... In many hospitals, four out of 10 women are returning to the operating room for a second surgery, Wilke says ... But researchers at Duke University Medical Center are working on an experimental device that might help reduce that risk: a device used in the operating room that can help surgeons know whether they've removed the tumor once and for all, thereby saving patients from... (ABC News)
Invitation To A Murder Dec 14, 2008
Mark was a nuclear engineer for the state of Illinois, and Donnah an operating room technician. Both sets of in-laws were delighted when the couple married in 1989. (CBS News)
A tragic day Dec 14, 2008
And there I spent 18-hr-days screening new blood donors, calling blood in from neighboring hospitals, and trying to keep up with the constant requests for blood and plasma for those burn victims in the ER (emergency room) and OR (operating room). There was a School of Nursing at St. Anne s which was transformed from a happy place of aspiring nurses to one of horror. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Cooper Opens Doors to New Era in Healthcare Dec 12, 2008
12 new operating room suites. 60 private medical/surgical rooms. (PR Newswire)
Chicago in the News Dec 12, 2008
The 91-year-old, the first African American to work in a Cook County hospital operating room, has volunteered at medical center since 1993. After I stopped nursing when I left the operating rooms of Mount Sinai, Washington said, I still wanted to be of service to someone because I felt this was a blessing and a gift given me. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Indians on verge of acquiring free-agent Wood Dec 12, 2008
He has been healthy since moving to the bullpen after several seasons that included trips to the disabled list and operating room. The Indians are confident Wood will pass the physical, but they are not taking any chances. (ESPN -- Baseball)
Doctor says he didn't try to hasten patient death Dec 12, 2008
He said he was told that the attending physician, Laura Lubarsky, would not arrive until he was in the operating room. Roozrokh said he instructed a nurse in the operating room to continue giving Navarro medication ... The San Luis Obispo man was in a coma after a heart attack when he was taken to the operating room. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Cooper Health expansion set for unveiling Dec 11, 2008
Among the features of the 10-story, 312,000-square-foot patient-care pavilion are: 12 new operating room suites, 60 private medical/surgical rooms, a technologically advanced 30-bed intensive-care unit, and an automated laboratory facility. The project also includes a 12,000-square-foot addition to Cooper s emergency department expected to open next year and future expansion space for up to 120 additional beds and imaging or procedure suites. (Philadelphia Business Journal, PA)
Jordan Health Systems Selects Broadlane to Provide Comprehensive Supply Chain Services Dec 10, 2008
Broadlane's comprehensive supply chain services include: - High-powered national and custom contracting for supplies, pharmaceuticals, equipment and purchased services - Innovative Procurement Services and purchase transaction management - for managing clinical preference items and operating room and cath lab spending - Comprehensive Materials Management Services - including outsourcing - Informatics - benchmarking, advanced analytics and reporting - Supply chain technology and e-commerce.... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Halt the SurgeryIt's Time for My Nap Dec 10, 2008
Proficiency in the operating room notoriously demands long hours, and one-third of orthopedic surgical residents were deprived of training in the operating theater because of shorter work hours, according to a 2002 survey by the British Orthopedic Association. "To become a competent surgeon in one fifth of the time once needed either requires genius, intensive practice, or lower standards. We are not geniuses," wrote the authors of an article published in the British Medical Journal in 2004. (Slate)
Study identifies characteristics of hospitals with low rates of surgical site infections Dec 9, 2008
Furthermore, the study concludes that strategies to reduce the length of operations and the number of blood transfusions should complement basic aseptic techniques in the operating room ... In the article in the December issue of JACS, researchers called for further studies to explore the link between higher transfusion rates in higher SSI incidence hospitals and commented that the practice of reducing operating room traffic also deserves more research. (EurekAlert!)
Gunfire can't keep Panther out long Dec 8, 2008
You hear about improbable comebacks in sports quite a bit, but just 32 days before he came back to Washington High football practice, Smith was in the operating room at Community Regional Medical Center. He had been shot in the legs and shoulders and chest. (Fresno Bee -- Sports)
Human sims aid high-tech medical training Dec 7, 2008
"Walk into our operating room and it looks like you're walking into a real operating room, with the actual cabinets, beeping monitors, sterilized surgical equipment, even a scrub sink," says STRATUS medical director Dr. Charles Pozner, who is also an emergency room physician ... You don't call it an operating room physician, do you. (Boston Globe)
Grady job a natural fit for new nonprofit chief Dec 7, 2008
Donors with the deepest pockets could buy naming rights to an operating room or nursing unit. Taking the foundation job was both a rational and emotional decision for Borders, she said in an interview Friday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Operations Engineering For More Efficient Operating Rooms Dec 5, 2008
5, 2008) Work by specialists in management engineering from the USC Viterbi School has led to significant improvements in turnover times for operating rooms at three safety net hospitals, allowing "many more hours of daytime surgery per year." Because of the success of the program, the work will be expanded to include three more hospitals ... "The 21% average reduction thus far adds many hours of daytime surgery per year for each of the three hospitals studied. The operational changes made were... (Science Daily)
Medical 'Conscience' Rule Enrages Liberals Dec 5, 2008
According to an AHA letter "the definitions of 'health care service program' and 'health care service,' to which an individual can find a moral objection, are very broad and potentially impinge on a patient's access to needed health care services. The far-reaching proposed rule has the potential to interfere with every aspect of patient care, according to Anne Davis, M.D., an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. "A receptionist... (Newsmax)
Microsoft, Penn State Hershey Medical Center Showcase Road Map to Patient Flow Efficiencies at First Healthcare Provider Symposium Dec 4, 2008
Variation in patient flow occurs throughout a hospital and contributes to such problems as extended wait times, overcrowding and boarding in the emergency department or post-anesthesia care units, bumped and late surgeries in the operating room, lack of available inpatient and intensive care unit beds, overburdened staff and physicians, and delays in providing care to patients. As many providers know, emergency departments, intensive care units and hospital hallways become inappropriate and... (PR Newswire)
JAIME RICHARDSON | GREEN VALLEY NEWSMembers of the Green Valley Lapidary and Silversmith Club, from left, Sharon Schuster, Nancy Hanna, Dick Heisel and Duncan Creed, show off some of their award-winning jewelry pieces.\0\0 Dec 3, 2008
Nancy Hanna moved to Green Valley as a year-round resident in 2006 after many years as an operating room nurse. She says she s always had a passion for rocks, minerals, crystals, roadside cuts and Native American jewelry. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Broader medical refusal rule may go far beyond abortion Dec 2, 2008
For example, in addition to a surgeon and a nurse in an operating room, the rule would extend to "an employee whose task it is to clean the instruments," the draft rule said. The "conscience" rule could set the stage for an abortion controversy in the early months of Barack Obama's administration. (Los Angeles Times)
SRI inks deal with Cardinal Health Dec 2, 2008
It also will provide hospitals with a broader range of environmentally responsible product alternatives to address their needs in the operating room, Steve Inacker, president and general manager of Cardinal Health s presource products and services business, said in the release. Reader Comments. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
Arrogant, abusive and disruptive — and a doctor Dec 2, 2008
A few say they have ducked scalpels thrown across the operating room by angry surgeons ... When he showed up late to the operating room, he did not realize the surgery site was mismarked and operated on the wrong part. (International Herald Tribune)
A scare forever etched Dec 2, 2008
Except for the period in the operating room, the father never left his son s side ... I called the plastic surgeon, who for the second time revised the tracheotomy in the operating room. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Arrogant, abusive and disruptive -- and a doctor Dec 2, 2008
A few say they have ducked scalpels thrown across the operating room by angry surgeons ... When he showed up late to the operating room, he did not realize the surgery site was mismarked and operated on the wrong part ... When the wrong surgery is done on patients, he said, often there is somebody in that operating room who knew the event was going to occur who did not feel empowered enough to speak up about it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Birth center an empowering choice worth saving Dec 2, 2008
They had an operating room ready for an emergency C-section. The doctor tried one more time and shifted Dylan s position at the last minute and the cord slipped off her shoulder and Dylan slipped out shortly thereafter. (Ipswich Chronicle, MA)
Suicide blast in Kabul kills 2 civilians Dec 1, 2008
"I can't determine whether the purpose of this attack was to destroy poor Afghans like me or to destroy foreigners," he said, as the hospital staff wheeled him to the operating room. Also on Sunday, the United Nations said an Afghan worker for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was shot and killed last Wednesday at a meeting with local leaders in the eastern province of Nangarhar. (International Herald Tribune)
BETTER LIFE: News on surgical breakthroughs and risks Dec 1, 2008
If you work in an operating room, have you ever worn your scrubs home. I occasionally see scrubs-clad people out and about, but I'd never really thought much about it (true, some of them probably never stepped foot in a hospital, because anyone can order those oh-so-fashionable blue and green tops and pants these days). (USA Today -- Money)
Faces or finances? Economy cuts into cosmetic procedures Dec 1, 2008
Five years ago, 80% of Hopping's week was spent in the operating room lifting aging eyes and wobbly chins, among other procedures that require anesthesia and extended healing. Now that's closer to 60%, and the rest is minimally invasive treatments, he says. (USA Today)
They deck out their cars like works of art Nov 30, 2008
The rooftop is so thickly covered you can't see the paint, and every so often, you'll strike upon a theme: an entire Playskool operating room, Mulder and Scully chasing an alien, four frogs crawling in a line, progressing from tadpole stage to adult. Friends, neighbors, and the Perlos' sons, Noah and Zach, have all added to the mix. (Boston Globe)
Barbara Bush out of ICU after surgery Nov 30, 2008
In the operating room, doctors thoroughly cleaned her abdominal cavity of any contaminants that had leaked through the hole, described by the hospital as being one centimeter in diameter. Then, doctors repaired the ulcer and sewed a piece of the fat tissue in the abdomen, on top of it to seal it, Reardon said. (CNN -- Health)
Flu shots a tough sell to some health care workers Nov 30, 2008
DES MOINES, Iowa ---- Operating room nurse Pauline Taylor knows her refusal to get a flu shot is based on faulty logic. But ever since she got sick after getting a shot a few years ago, she's sworn off the vaccine. (North County Times)
Wheat grass may be the new apple Nov 30, 2008
Even health-care professionals, such as most of the personnel from the Beaufort County Medical Center s operating room, come for their daily shot of wheat grass, Carol said. I love to hear what the men from the OR say when they come in. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Hospital systems taking hit on investments Nov 28, 2008
That money is being used for projects such as the new CMC-Lincoln hospital, expansion of operating room facilities at Carolinas Medical Center, and the next phase of expansion at CMC-Pineville. The health-care system has $491 million in capital projects budgeted for 2009, up from $396 million in 2008. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
Nurse Accused of Being Drunk Twice While Working Nov 27, 2008
Nurse Accused of Twice Being Drunk in Operating Room ... A Wisconsin operating room nurse s license has been suspended after she was caught allegedly working legally drunk at least twice, WGBA TV reported Tuesday ... She was working in the operating room while under the influence of, and impaired by, alcohol, according to state records. (Fox News)
Barbara Bush: Stomach pain worse than childbirth Nov 27, 2008
In the operating room, doctors thoroughly cleaned her abdominal cavity of any contaminants that had leaked through the hole, described by the hospital as being 1 centimeter. Then, doctors repaired the ulcer and used a piece of the omentum, living fat tissue in the abdomen, to sew on top of it to seal it, Reardon said. (CNN -- US)
More of this story Nov 27, 2008
The Scotts got the call at 11:54 a.m. Manning went through some tests and by 6:30 p.m., he was in the operating room. It was just an emotional thing. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Lodi Memorial nurse has chance to visit foreign hospitals Nov 27, 2008
Brown received her invitation in February from the Association of Operating Room Nurses ... She has been involved with the Association for Operating Room Nurses since 1971 ... Since then, she has been a certified nurse in the operating room at Lodi Memorial Hospital for almost 20 years. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
New approaches make retinal detachment highly treatable Nov 27, 2008
According to Dr. D'Amico, scleral buckling is a relatively involved procedure and requires the use of a hospital operating room ... The gas bubble then resolves over several days, and in successful cases, the retina is left reattached without a trip to the operating room, and with no permanent buckling material applied to the eye. (EurekAlert!)
