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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the OR
As the calendar flips to 2025, artificial intelligence (AI) is making its mark in almost every corner of business and society. This includes the operating room, where AI and machine learning (ML) are being integrated to improve decision making, predict surgical complications and case durations, automate documentation and streamline the perioperative workflow.
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Spotlight On: Sandra McPeak, RN, BSN
For the last three-and-a-half decades, Sandra McPeak has devoted her career to the ophthalmological and surgical care of adults and children. A dedicated nurse at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, she’s spent nearly the entirety of her career not only in one specialty, but almost all of it in one health system.
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The Heart of Nursing: Surgical Missions
There is a growing interest in surgical missions among many perioperative professionals today. The concept of medical missions, however, goes all the way back to the 18th to late-19th centuries.
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Spotlight On: Brian Burrier, Perioperative Nursing Professional Development Specialist
Today, Burrier is a board member of the Connecticut chapter of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) who’s passionate about “trying to do larger things,” like bringing AORN events to his hospital, delivering nursing continuing education, and working with different vendors to get in-service trainings.
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Surgical Time Out Celebrates 20th Anniversary
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Surgical Time Out, a groundbreaking perioperative practice that some have ranked with wearing gloves and following sterile procedures as among the most important changes in perioperative history.
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