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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Operating rooms"”.
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The assessment of the knowledge of surgical patients and their understanding of informed consent for elective surgical interventions in operating-rooms at public training hospitals, Windhoek, Khomas region, Namibia
… It has been noted at Windhoek Central Hospital operating rooms that patients may sign informed consent form without knowledge and understanding of what they have signed for. The aim of this study was therefore to assess surgical patients’ knowledge and understanding of the informed consent …
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MODELS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR ELECTIVE SURGERY SCHEDULING UNDER UNCERTAINTY CONSIDERING PATIENT HEALTH CONDITION
… surgeons, physicians, anesthesiologists, nurses, operating rooms, wards, etc. Therefore, patient safety is related to how to run a healthcare system with the limited resources.
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Managing variability to improve quality, capacity and cost in the perioperative process at Massachusetts General Hospital
… is an "open block" scheduling policy for the operating rooms at MGH. It was designed with the aid of a discrete event simulation model, which was used to refine the policy and predict the impact of the change. By more effectively characterizing and managing the stochastic demand of …
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(OR)² : operations research applied to operating room supply chain
… in New England; it uses an average of 58 operating rooms, where approximately 150 surgical procedures are performed daily. Management of surgical supplies is a critical component of the processes supporting this infrastructure. Specifically, ensuring the right equipment and supplies are …
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Operacinėje dirbančių slaugytojų komandinio darbo iššūkiai /
… is active and harmonious collaboration among operating specialists. The application of successful teamwork principles in the operating room is particularly crucial as it promotes collaboration among specialists from different fields, knowledge sharing, learning, improvement, productivity. …
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Techniques for the characterization of sedation due to opiate administration
… used in this investigation were collected in the operating rooms at the Massachusetts General Hospital with the help of anesthesiologists, surgeons, nursing staff, and clinical research coordinators.
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A study of organizational alignment at a Boston area hospital and its effects on patient throughput in the peri-operative areas
… Hospital has been experiencing delays in the operating rooms when moving patients into the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). As the different services of the hospital are inherently reliant upon each other, this issue cannot be isolated and resolved in this one hospital area. As this is the …
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Steps Towards a Closed-Loop System for Blood Pressure Control
Management of blood pressure in the operating room is currently done manually by anesthesiologists. Poor blood pressure management has been linked to poor postoperative outcomes. As such, development of a closed-loop system for blood pressure control is warranted, given it produces improved patient …
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Preventing Surgical Site Infections by Utilizing CHG Wipes for Preoperative Skin Preparation
… hospital in Washington. The microsystem has five operating rooms where they provide outpatient, and inpatient surgical procedures. The goal of this project is to reduce and sustain a near zero number of surgical site infections by implementing the use of a no rinse 2% CHG cloth in the surgical …
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Operating Room Awarness and Supervision in the Context of Laparoscopy
… Indirect vision and the limited access to the operating field are the most important of them. With our smart trocar we intend to make the surgeon's work easier by giving him new information that compensates the lack of haptic feedback and the poor depth perception inherent to the laparoscopy. …
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MEASURING THE IMPACT OF THE MICRONEGOTIATION TECHNIQUE ON TEAM MEMBER SATISFACTION AND TEAM PERFORMANCE
… In response to concerns about conflict in operating rooms, Rogers and Lingard (2006) suggested a conflict resolution tool, micronegotiation, as a way for surgeons to manage conflict. This study used students in health-related courses (radiology, physiology, and microbiology) to measure the …
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Advancing green practices in the operating room
… five million tons of waste annually, with operating rooms (ORs) responsible for more than 30% of this burden. Despite well-documented benefits of recycling programs, many ORs lack structured waste-management systems, resulting in improper segregation, excessive reliance on single-use …
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Operating Room Awareness with the Smart Trocar: Innovative Laparoscopic Surgery
… in the body. However, limited access to the operating field, indirect 2D vision of a 3D complex scene, the presence of mirror effect, and operating rooms originally built for open surgery, conspire to make the surgeon's work more difficult and less efficient. We present a new technology, the …
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Utilizing a real-time locating system for surgical equipment inventory management
… of surgical equipment which must be delivered to operating rooms on-time, efficiently, and according to a set of quality standards. In recent years, flexible scope management has become a topic of interest for many hospitals, as they face pressure to both reduce costs and prevent infections that …
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The development of a surgical scheduler's management game with an adaptive training device
… scheduler in a 400 bed hospital with five operating rooms. For each operation to be scheduled, the participant receives the name of the surgeon placing the scheduling request, the pre-operative procedure name, the patient's age and the date and time requested. The participant must then …
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Biomedical disenchantments: practices, discourses, and imaginaries of transnational biomedicalization in rural Ethiopia
… form of participant observation in the wards, operating rooms, and clinics of the hospitals, qualitative interviews with Ethiopian and American physicians, hospital administrators, NGO coordinators, and other medical staff, and community member surveys. This dissertation contends that …
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Improving surgical patient flow through simulation of scheduling heuristics
… 38,000 operations performed each year, MGH's operating rooms (ORs) run at 90% utilization and their hospital beds at 99% operational occupancy. MGH is faced with capacity constraints throughout the perioperative (pre-, intra-, and postoperative) process and desires to improve throughput and …
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Operating room fire management simulation and instructional video
Simulation education has been widely adopted in nursing education to develop practice-ready nursing professionals and correct suboptimal practice patterns. The aviation industry first used simulation to develop psychometric, critical thinking, and crisis management skills among pilots. This …
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An Informatics Solution for Operating Room Efficiency
… </strong>For most hospitals, a major cost is the operating room. Inefficiency increases costs and risks for adverse events. An efficient operating room can also be a major revenue generator.<strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Context: </strong>This evidence-based performance improvement project was …
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Effects of Simultaneous Alarms on Resolution Heuristics
… multiple alarms in complex environments such as operating rooms and cockpits (Konkani, Oakley, & Bauld, 2012; Woods, Suter, & Billings, 1997), it is important to identify reaction strategies that may and should be used when an unreliable alarm is in the presence of other alarms. Accordingly, the …
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