LAS VEGAS – Hospitals are exploring new ways to connect surgical and inpatient care using digital tools and real-time data, with technologies such as smart OR systems that provide new connectivity for ...

BACKGROUND: Contamination of the breathing circuit and medication preparation surface of an anesthesia machine can increase the risk of cross-infection. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the contamination of the ...

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SAN ANTONIO – An 82-year-old Baptist Health System patient says the hospital’s newest hybrid operating room helped save his life after doctors found a dangerous aneurysm. Daniel Amendola was facing ...

For decades, hospitals have relied on desflurane, a popular anesthetic, to put patients to sleep on the operating table. But the chemical is a potent greenhouse gas, so regulators, health systems and ...

“This is an industry-first collaboration that brings AI into outpatient operating rooms to support surgeons in real time and improve efficiencies and outcomes across every step of the patient journey, ...

An initiative that encouraged surgery patients to bring their own reusable bags for belongings and a reusable water bottle led to reductions in surgical carbon footprints, waste, and cost, a new study ...

A Stillwater medical professional has been arrested and accused of using fentanyl and other controlled substances meant for patients, while in the operating room. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics said ...

Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) investigators in collaboration with Stillwater Medical Center assisted with the arrest of CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anestheist) Daniel Boring on charges ...

Infant heart transplants are extraordinarily rare. A Times health journalist donned scrubs and witnessed how the surgery unfolded. By Simar Bajaj Simar Bajaj covers health and wellness as a member of ...