OR Today Editor John Wallace recently interviewed well-known urologists Drs. Bilal Chughtai, Dean Elterman, and Daniel Rukstalis with a focus on PMI (www.ProdeonMedical.com).
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OR Wish List
What items are on your OR or ASC wish list this year? We decided to ask a number of different perioperative professionals this question. Following is a summary of their responses.
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[Sponsored] Corporate Profile: Innovative Medical Products (IMP)
Innovative Medical Products (IMP) is driven to continually develop and innovate surgical positioning devices that benefit and improve efficiency in the operating room and hospital clinics where patient stability and positioning are required.
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Timeouts and Handoffs
When most people hear the terms “time out” and “handoff,” they think of football. In OR parlance, a time out is a pause that’s performed prior to the initiation of an operative or invasive procedure. A handoff is the transfer of a patient’s care from one practitioner to another.
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Spotlight On: Darlene Murdock
Growing up the youngest of three sisters in Laurel, Mississippi, Darlene Murdock remembers well the values her mother instilled in her from childhood: always do your best, don’t worry about what other people say about you, and work hard.
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Spotlight On: Kristy A. Wheeler, MSN, RN, CNOR, Senior Clinical Nurse II, Acute Care Emergency Surgery Service Line Coordinator, University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), Baltimore
As a teenager, Kristy Wheeler grew up watching “ER,” the 15-season NBC medical drama that followed the lives of emergency room staff at a fictional Chicago hospital. The show resonated with her so much so that Wheeler decided to pursue a career as a surgical technologist.
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