The 2020 OR Today Webinar Series continues to provide valuable information to health care professionals. The recent webinar “The True Costs of OR Delays: A Review” shared insights. Michael Weissman, system director of sterile processing at UCSF Medical Center,...
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New Report Guides Drug-Device Combination Risk Management
by OR Today Magazine | Oct 2, 2020
Experts from industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently joined forces to take a closer look at the interface of medical device and drug development, called “combination products.” Their new technical information report, AAMI TIR105:2020 Risk...
READ MORESPD-OR Partnership Agreement Sets Stage for Better Relationship, Patient Outcomes
by OR Today Magazine | Sep 30, 2020
By Julie E. Williamson Perhaps nowhere else in a health care organization are two departments more closely intertwined as sterile processing (SP) and the operating room (OR). Despite obvious differences in their core responsibilities, the two teams cannot function...
READ MOREIt’s Safe to Resume Non-Emergency Outpatient Surgery
by OR Today Magazine | Sep 30, 2020
By Bill Prentice By the time you read this message, coronavirus-related guidance of many kinds will have been in place in communities across the country for more than half the year. For patients who could not get routine or non-emergency health care under some of that...
READ MORENursing Education is Changing
by OR Today Magazine | Sep 30, 2020
By James X. Stobinski I recently read a short online article by Jon Marcus (2020) which was posted on the Wired magazine website. His article on microcredentials is one example of how education may be changing because of the pandemic. I would like to introduce some...
READ MOREGetinge Offers ‘Groundbreaking’ Ventilation Technology for Premature Babies, Adults
by OR Today Magazine | Sep 30, 2020
Born 12 weeks too early with a 50/50 chance at survival, Sabina Checketts has grown up to become a neonatal doctor herself, using new therapies and sophisticated technology to improve outcomes for premature babies. One such technique called NAVA, invented by Getinge,...
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