Robert Caplan, M.D., chair of the ASA Task Force on Operating Room Fires, said the lack of a national reporting system for operating room fires makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly how many occur ...

The authors analyzed the impacts of COVID-19 on orthopedic operating room efficiency via comparison of 14,856 surgeries performed before, during, and after the pandemic. Objective: The COVID-19 ...

During stressful moments in the operating room, surgeons make up to 66 percent more mistakes on patients, new findings from Columbia University show. And since clinical quality is increasingly tied to ...

How to scale a technology company with a mission to improve patient outcomes in surgical procedures. Launched in 2016, Proximie was a platform that enabled clinicians, proctors, and medical device ...

In an operating room at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a collection of video cameras, microphones and other sensors monitor the scene, from the delicate surgical procedure to the number of times a ...