Operating room nurses have two main roles.The "scrub nurse" who assists the doctor at the surgical field, and the "circulating nurse" who oversees the entire room.Today, I will talk about this ...

The operating room (OR) can be a mysterious place. It has long been a relatively hidden medical environment, where the only people who know what happens in it are the on-duty medics. However, new ...

A study published in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal is believed to be the first of its kind to link operating room design to the length of knee- and hip-replacement surgeries. The ...

As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

Surgery has the ability to save lives, but a number of hazards lurking in operating rooms. Surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, assistants and other professionals working in surgical environments put ...

Artificial intelligence has swept into medicine with a speed that few specialties have ever experienced, and plastic and ...

With extreme precision needed for certain medical operations, state-of-the-art robots offer a way to make surgery easier. In a surgery in India, a robot scans a patient's knee to figure out how best ...

A portable operating room could bring a safe, sterile surgical environment to the front lines of conflict zones. SurgiBox is a collapsible tent-like structure that uses a pump to inflate and create ...