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SURGICAL SUITES: Guidelines on best practices to prevent surgical site...
The number of unresolved issues in this guideline reveals substantial gaps that warrant future research.” (page E6) Best practices in avoiding surgical site infections were studied by the Centers for...
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SURGICAL SUITE: Neurosurgical operating room of the future incorporates...
The next phase of the OR of the future is to focus at the cellular level through next-generation imaging that will allow advanced interrogation of normal and diseased neural tissue…which will be...
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SURGICAL SUITE: Implementing ERAS at Kaiser Permanente
Engagement among patients and clinicians is excellent, and the ERAS team is working toward realizing the vision of enhanced recovery hospitals where the ERAS paradigm becomes the standard of care for...
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ROBOTICS: Use in interventional cardiology procedures
…contemporary robot-assisted PCI systems improve operator safety by reducing ionizing radiation exposure and can improve procedural quality and outcomes by offering better accuracy accuracy in stent...
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BATRIATRICS: Is gastric bypass surgery effective?
The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure was found to help obese patients lose and keep weight off 12 years after surgery compared to a group of similar patients who did not have surgery. This study,...
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OPERATING ROOMS: How much major surgery is infrequent? Is there an impact on...
Texas hospitals were studied to see how many inpatient major surgical procedures were not performed very often (once a month or less) at each hospital analyzed. In this study of discharge data from...
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SURGERY: How much vascular surgery is done?
This is an analysis of over 3 million adult inpatient admissions in the state of Maryland during the years 2009 to 2013. 3,157,499 adult admissions to Maryland hospitals 2009-2013 154,004 (5...
View ArticlePERIOPERATIVE: Enhanced recovery after surgery
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) refers to redesigned perioperative care, sometimes also referred to as fast-track recovery after surgery. Among the objectives are to reduce readmissions and...
View ArticleORTHOPEDICS: 30-day readmission rates for total hip and total knee replacement
The readmission rate for total hip replacement and total knee replacement procedures performed recently on patients in California, Florida and Massachusetts was studied. Here are the findings for the...
View ArticleOPERATING ROOMS: What are the 10 most costly procedures?
Here are data from the federal government’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) that compare different surgical procedures according the expense incurred by hospitals in providing them....
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