Articles Tagged With: surgeons
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Will Surgeons Be Replaced by Robots?
Robots performed as well as surgeons and, in some cases, better in stitching pigs' intestinal tissue.
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Concurrent surgeries now limited in MA
The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine recently approved a rule to regulate the practice of physicians performing procedures on more than one patient at a time.
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Want to cut supply costs? Tell surgeons how they compare with their peers
The neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, and otolaryngology – head and neck surgery departments at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco had a 4% decrease in median surgical supply costs in six months through a price transparency initiative aimed at surgeons.
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Saving Money with Surgical First Assistants
Increasingly, outpatient surgeons are adding surgical first assistants as a tool to shorten their procedure times and add more cases.
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Wrong-site surgery traced to lack of timeout
A surgeon’s wrong-site error on a patient’s brain happened because he failed to perform a timeout before the procedure, according to a recent court decision that also describes how the physician tried to hide his error and did not report the sentinel event to administrators.
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Concurrent Surgeries Save Time, But at What Price?
This practice is common and has been accepted for so long that it might be going on in your hospital, but only the surgical team knows about it. -
Complications post-thyroid surgery lead to patient death, $1.3 million verdict
News: A patient undergoing thyroid surgery was accompanied to the hospital by her sister and daughter. After surgery, the patient began to struggle with her breathing. The patient’s sister and daughter observed the surgeon and nurses work on the patient for more than 30 minutes, during which time the patient’s condition deteriorated until the patient stopped breathing and lost her pulse, which led to permanent brain injury. The patient died 10 days later.
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PIAA: Most commonly missed or delayed diagnosis: breast cancer
Details of 2014 study from PIAA in Rockville, MD, on diagnostic errors and claims.
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Can you offer total hips and knees in 23 hours? Yes!
Start posting patients for hip replacements and send them home in less than 24 hours directly from your surgery center. No 72-hour-stay facility is needed.
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Same-Day Surgery Manager: ‘You’re not the boss of me’ — or are you?