Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine students developed a backpack-sized mobile surgical kit that is designed for minor ...

Mark Strand, a married father of three from Nokesville, Virginia, said he knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. "I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers, not super high," he ...

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 ...

Newly built hospital operating rooms are generally equipped with the newest technologies and functionality to perform surgeries efficiently. But one environmental factor that is often left out may be ...

Traditional surgical risk calculators and assessment methods can struggle to account for a patient’s unique health situation, making accurate risk prediction a major challenge and increasing the ...

Scott Mabry, M.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, is using mixed reality technology to help perform and teach total hip replacements, specifically the replacement of ...

As hospitals and governmental bodies place a greater emphasis on patient safety, operating room teams are working to build “cultures of safety” that reward compliance and encourage teamwork. But while ...

How to scale a technology company with a mission to improve patient outcomes in surgical procedures. Launched in 2016, Proximie was a platform that enabled clinicians, proctors, and medical device ...

HOW LONG THEY’LL STICK AROUND. COMING UP IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES. NEW AT FOUR. A NEW PLAN IS IN THE WORKS TO HELP VOLUSIA COUNTY IMPROVE ITS RESPONSE TO EMERGENCIES. THE COUNTY WANTS TO SPEND $5 MILLION ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, reflects on the quantity of waste produced by surgical operations and what can be done to address it. Following is a partial transcript (note errors are ...