Becoming an operating room technician may be a good career path for you if you are detail oriented and fascinated by the medical profession. The primary responsibility mentioned in the operating room ...

Operating room nurses, who are more correctly called perioperative nurses, provide technical assistance and nursing care in operating rooms. Although many work in hospitals, they may also work in ...

The operating room is getting smarter, more effective—and a lot less risky for patients. Hospitals are investing in new devices, designs and digital technologies that promise a new era of innovation ...

Hospitals are bringing together surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses with architects, engineers and administrative staff to rethink the modern operating room. By Ellen Rosen See more of our coverage ...

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 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 ...

There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every ...

At 8:30 on a Wednesday morning, nurses roll 83-year-old Rev. Ralph Kee into a place with one of the largest carbon footprints in Boston: a hospital operating room. He comes to a stop in the middle of ...