North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) is a leader in patient safety and healthcare innovation. In 2008, NAPA achieved remarkable results when it installed the first HIPAA- and PHI-compliant, ...

Cale Banks makes it a practice to get to work early. The assistant nurse manager for the operating rooms at Novant Health Rowan Medical Center oversees eight ORs. “We perform 25 to 30 procedures each ...

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SoutheastHEALTH has announced the opening of two new areas designed to give surgical patients access to the latest technologies and to give heart patients a new-patient centered inpatient area. A new ...

Researchers at San Francisco General Hospital recently published a study that found patients on mechanical ventilation required lower doses of sedatives when they listened to classical music, ...

The newest advancement in robotic surgery just arrived at St. Joseph’s/Candler Hospital. This new technology is 10,000 times ...

The operating room at the Papineau Hospital in western Quebec has reopened after a sterilization equipment failure forced its ...

A small number of patients at an Oregon hospital woke up to more than run-of-the-mill post-surgery scars -- their skin was burned. Thanks to unfiltered halogen operating room lights, about 10 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Surgeons in training at Sanford Health have another tool to sharpen their skills. This may look like some sort of video game. But these headsets and hand controls are ...