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, ...

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Surgical site infections have an incidence of around 3% (1–7%) after orthopedic surgery 1, mostly (~ 20%) caused by the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus 2. They can be classified according to anatomical ...

A study published in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal is believed to be the first of its kind to link operating room design to the length of knee- and hip-replacement surgeries. The ...

LAWRENCE – Xiaobo Quan is proud that his study is the first of its kind to link operating room design to the length of knee- and hip-replacement surgeries. Thus, the University of Kansas School of ...

Providing surgical treatment for patients, the operating room always makes overwhelming contributions to and figures prominently in the thriving and forging for a hospital running 1,2,3. With the ...

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 ...

“She wants Eric Church on the Pandora,” Dr. Michael Belfort told the team that was preparing a woman for surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital, in Houston. The country music fan was Lexi Royer, who, 24 ...

Cincinnati Children's teamed up with Philips to create the first Azurion hybrid operating room. This will combine tools from surgery and interventional radiology to create a more effective way to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. While hospitals have been overburdened, intensive care units have ...

For Dr. Samuel Vester, watching his daughter pursue a career in medicine was rewarding enough, but getting to work alongside ...