Few areas in a hospital have more critical control needs then those where surgical procedures occur. These areas have exact requirements for temperature, humidity, pressurization, and ventilation. The ...

Behavioral and cultural factors: If teams anticipate inefficiency or delays because that’s the norm, then they stop attempting to optimize the schedule. Surgeons do not add cases, schedulers leave ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Before the car-wreck victim reached the emergency room, doctors, residents and nurses at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center knew what to expect by glancing at their smartphones. The ...

1. Use first names in the OR. An important part of OR culture is making sure all the people in the operating room work as a team, Ms. Pugliese says. “Everyone should feel comfortable speaking up,” she ...

Dr. Goya Raikar has spent much of his career taking the “open” out of open-heart surgery. As Chief Cardiac Surgeon at ...

Visiting Kaiser Permanente’s Garfield Center for Innovation, a 37,000-square-foot testing ground for health care innovation in San Leandro, California, is a bit like stepping into a well-equipped ...

Whether it's an impoverished nation, a battlefield or a disaster site, there are places where doctors have to perform surgery outside of a sterile operating room. That's where the SurgiField system ...

Scott Mabry, M.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, is using mixed reality technology to help perform and teach total hip replacements, specifically the replacement of ...