Seyfarth Synopsis: Smoke produced during surgical procedures is carcinogenic and can carry pathogens. Employers who fail to abate surgical smoke hazards may face liability from employee injuries and ...

Brian Reed, CEO of Ascendco Health, added, "This report validates what we hear from surgical teams every day: the lack of real-time data and standardized workflows is holding back performance. By ...

Precision, competence, and focus have always been needed in surgery. Physical exertion and antiquated apparatus can constrain surgeons’ skills, notwithstanding the diligent efforts of healthcare ...

Surgical robotics witnessed an explosion of innovation in the 1990s and early 2000s, which brought to market new technologies that drastically changed the surgical landscape. However, robotic ...

Water Street Facilitates Merger of U.S. and European Providers; Combined Company Offers Comprehensive Product Portfolio Focused on Surgical Safety and Efficiency MINNEAPOLIS & LENSAHN, ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital Surgery, a health tech company shaping the future of surgery through the convergence of surgical expertise and technology, today announced it has developed and ...

Every surgeon needs a properly equipped operating room to perform surgery with precision and effectiveness. One of the most important equipment in an operating room, other than surgical tools, is the ...

Despite a national focus on reducing surgical errors, surgery-related adverse events continue to occur both inside and outside the operating room, according to an analysis of events at Veterans Health ...

The surgical technology program at Lakeland Community College recently acquired new software intending to give students a feel for what it’s like to work in an operating room. According to the program ...

To assess the effects of ambient noise on communication in the operating room, investigators created a noise environment similar to that of an OR and tested 15 surgeons. Ambient background noise -- ...