Articles Tagged With: surgeries
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Surgical Instruments’ Sterilization Probed After 11 Years of Complaints
“It’s a surgeon’s nightmare.” These words, spoken by a physician at Detroit Medical Center, ran in The Detroit News in a multi-story investigative series about how physicians had reported unclean, missing, and damaged surgical instruments for 11 years without the issue being resolved.
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Surgical Instruments’ Sterilization Probed After 11 Years of Complaints
“It’s a surgeon’s nightmare.” These words, spoken by a physician at Detroit Medical Center, ran in The Detroit News in a multi-story investigative series about how physicians had reported unclean, missing, and damaged surgical instruments for 11 years without the issue being resolved.
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American College of Surgeons Says No to Most Concurrent Surgeries
Responding to concerns about surgeons operating on more than one patient at a time, the American College of Surgeons recently updated its Statements on Principles with a section that makes clear that surgeons should not conduct two procedures simultaneously.
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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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Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring: Does it Change the Outcome from Spinal Surgery?
In non-complex spine surgeries (spinal decompression and spinal fusion), intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring improved clinical outcomes and reduced the risk of neurological complications by nearly one-half (49%).
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Are concurrent surgeries a good tool to save time and money? Experts express caution
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has been the focus of controversy over the safety of concurrent surgeries and whether patients have a right to know when surgeons are dividing their attention. One patient safety leader says that the practice is not necessarily improper but should be monitored by management.
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Concurrent surgeries: How much is too much?
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has been the focus of controversy over the safety of concurrent surgeries and whether patients have a right to know when surgeons are dividing their attention. One patient safety leader tells Healthcare Risk Management that the practice is not necessarily improper but should be monitored by risk management.