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There is a baby boom among the operating room staff at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital. There are currently nine staffers who are pregnant and a tenth who gave birth earlier this month.
Arizona Hospital Closes Operating Room so Staff Can Be Reassigned to Surging COVID Cases. Published Nov 23, 2021 at 10:58 PM EST Updated Nov 24, 2021 at 5:57 PM EST. By .
Fragile egos, obese patients and talking organs: A surgeon's inside view of what really goes on behind the operating room doors. An excerpt from Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri's new book.
RIDLEY PARK, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — A Delaware County hospital is being forced to close down its operating room on Sunday. Workers there believe it’s an indicator of bigger changes to come ...
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. -- Questions have surfaced about the actions of operating room staff during a fatal surgery in Northwest Florida where the wrong organ was removed.. Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky is ...
No staff signed off on this, they didn't agree to be videotaped for these cases as well too." Last month, nurses voted to authorize a strike. Hoping to avoid it, both sides head back to the ...
The operating room's clinical manager says the quieter days bring on a different kind of stress. "Every single time that we slow down, we know we're affecting the wait-list," says Laura Matheson.
BOSTON - Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston says cameras in operating rooms are a necessary part of robotic surgeries. However, some say the devices are an invasion of privacy. Nurses at the ...
Hundreds of nurses, physicians and other medical staff lined the hallways of UMC this morning as Michael Sigler was wheeled to an operating room to have organs removed for donation.
Research presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists found that overly dark operating rooms should “go green” by bathing the room in dim green light, according to ...
One of the bullets that killed a man narrowly missed the bomb he was carrying. Had it hit him a few inches lower, he probably would have exploded, police said Thursday. Police said the bomb, with a… ...
Michigan surgeon threatened to BLOW UP operating room with a 'bomb belt' in rage over malfunctioning carbon dioxide tank and previously told staff he'd shoot himself with a .22 when he was unhappy ...