On a daily basis, women put themselves in the hands of hospital staff like me. Often they are in a state of desperation: Their pain or bleeding is no longer tolerable, or they have come to us for an ...

It was three in the morning when I received the call to come to the hospital. A 56-year-old male had fallen off a ladder and sustained a spinal cord injury, paralyzing his arms and legs. Looking at ...

Wyoming, Mich.-based UM Health-West and Livonia-Mich.-based Trinity Health partnered to create an open-heart surgery operating room in the Grand Rapids, Mich., area, MLive reported Oct. 13. The ...

I’m a surgeon, and I couldn’t be more excited about the potential for communications tools to democratize access to essential knowledge in my profession. Throughout the history of modern surgery, ...

Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, is regional vice president of operations for Health Inventures. Q: What is a good benchmark for maximum operating room utilization in an ambulatory surgery center ...

Mark Strand, a married father of three from Nokesville, Virginia, said he knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. "I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers, not super high," he ...

The authors analyzed the impacts of COVID-19 on orthopedic operating room efficiency via comparison of 14,856 surgeries performed before, during, and after the pandemic. Objective: The COVID-19 ...

A new study has directly linked operating room design to the length of surgeries, with implications both for patient health and hospitals' bottom lines. Xiaobo Quan is proud that his study is the ...

Stacey Silva‘s quest to achieve a flawless, youthful appearance is never-ending. The reality TV star’s latest plastic surgery venture involved a multi-part procedure that focused on her face, abs, and ...