On average, 51 Million surgical inpatient procedures are performed in the United States each year. With the increased focus on wellness, preventative, and team-based medicine, an introduction of new ...

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

Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., opened a new $3 million hybrid operating room in May, combining the capabilities of a cardiac catheterization lab and the disinfected environment of ...

An operating room fire that started on a patient’s abdomen. Surgical placement of a drainage tube in the wrong kidney. An unnecessary gall bladder-related procedure. Repeated failures to document that ...

The concept of a hybrid operating room is new to health care and is an advanced procedural space that takes a traditional operating room and combines it with an image guided interventional suite. This ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Artisight is the first Smart Hospital platform capable of autonomously documenting operating room activity into a patient's electronic health record (EHR) using ...

Adherence to proven protocols for disinfecting surgeons' hands, patients' skin, and operating room surfaces could help to halt the spread of dangerous Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) pathogens in ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — After a successful grand opening of its new operating room at the Lake Baldwin VA Clinic last week, on Monday, the first patient was seen and operated on. The cutting-edge facility ...