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by Rosie D. Lyles, MD, MHA, MSc; Head of Clinical Affairs, Clorox Healthcare The Burden of Surgical Site Infection In today’s dynamic healthcare environment, preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) is one of the greatest challenges. SSIs continue to rank as one of...

Olympus recently unveiled the Visera 4K UHD System, its big screen surgical system, at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) 2016 annual meeting in Boston. The Visera 4K UHD System delivers four times the resolution of HD with better...

In 1991, Buffalo Filter was founded on the belief that there was a need to rid the world’s surgical environments of the hazards associated with surgical smoke plume exposure. Over the course of the last 25 years, Buffalo Filter has set the standard with...

An increasing population of vendors are visiting multiple facilities throughout the day often wearing a single pair of “street-scrubs” which contributes to possible cross contamination among facilities, and an increased risk of SSI.   RepScrubs was developed by...

Unplanned hypothermia remains a significant concern for patients undergoing surgery. The updated AORN Guidelines for Prevention of Unplanned Patient Hypothermia identifies “considerations for selecting a warming method which include: planned procedure, patient...