The need to reduce the frequency and impact of medical errors has generated much discussion. As part of this debate, we have asked how other industries have produced documented safety improvements.

Effective leadership is critical to ensuring safety, efficiency and maximum productivity in the operating room (OR). This practical, evidence-based book unpicks the dynamics of a successful OR ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Effective leadership is critical to ensuring safety, efficiency and maximum productivity in the operating room (OR). This practical, ...

To do this, surgeons wear augmented reality goggles during surgery. They project 3D computed tomography (CT) and MRI scans ...

During extended operating room scenes, doctors slice through body parts and there’s blood everywhere. That’s nothing compared ...

Being rolled into an operating room is scary enough, but even more so when you consider that of the 300 million surgeries performed worldwide each year, up to 50 million will involve ...

The problem: "In some institutions, up to 45 percent of all medication waste in the operating room is propofol," emphasizes Dr. Florian Windler, a KAI assistant physician at the UKB.

The London, UK-based company's connected operating room (OR) platform means doctors can physically show each other where to make an incision – in real-time – or use physical gestures to ...

Angela Teel has been the nurse manager for the operating room at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital for the better part of a decade. And in those years, she has almost always been short of personnel for a ...