Surgical procedures

has a number of key characteristics, said by The Plastic Surgery Report. Surgical and non-surgical techniques are involved to reshape the normal structure the body. Consumers begin an innermost characteristic of plastic surgery to improve their self-esteem and appearance. As a result of medical need, other medical procedures are performed for therapeutic reasons. However, it is difficult to define the procedures performed for therapeutic reasons from those that are performed for…

such procedures, they put trust in their surgeons to use good judgment and stay focused on the surgery. However, surgical mistakes often occur, many of which are preventable. Preventable surgical errors are commonly referred to as surgical never events. This is because it is believed that such mistakes are completely avoidable and thus, should never occur. The Boston Globe reports that there were 821 preventable errors reported by Massachusetts’ hospitals last year alone. Preventable surgical…

conventional surgery and procedure may last for several hours. For a human being that can become exhausting which lead to a shorten attention span. As a result, the surgeon 's hand will become tired and they will be more prone to make mistakes, but a robot hand never gets tired or fall out of position. in the article, “ Medical robots are assisting in urological, neurological, gynecological, cardiac, orthopedic, gastrointestinal, pediatric, and radio-surgical procedures”(Allan). The robots are…

Hayne in the district court system regarding the verdict of malpractice action was appealed to the supreme court of Iowa. The plaintiff, Ilene Perin underwent surgery to address an issue, but the attending physician performed a slightly different procedure then what was initially intended. Despite relieving the patient of her prior ailment, the outcome of the surgery resulted in the creation of another ailment. In attempt to describe what substantial difference encompasses in healthcare,…

be defined in many ways with many subcategories. One definition is, “surgery performed on the wrong side or site of the body, wrong surgical procedure performed, and surgery performed on the wrong patient, any invasive procedure that exposes patients to more than minimal risk, including procedures performed in settings other than the OR, such as a special procedures unit, an endoscopy unit, and an interventional…

come into focus. While surgery itself is an acient practice; surgical ethics are still a relativly new concept. Often surgical practices are not field tested. New surgical procedures will often happen out of necessity, or during a surgical procedure. Since robotic surgery requires special equipment such as software and special physical equipment; it has allowed for further research and study prior to using this specilized equipment. Surgical robots are more complex, both electrically and…

room such as infection prevention, time out procedure and sponge/instrument counts. Infection prevention was the most obvious to me. In the operating room was a specific area only designed for the which was the surgeon, surgical technician, and nurse anesthetist while the surgery was in progress. Each of them were donned in their sterile personal protective equipment with a face shield. All the sterile instruments had already been set up by the surgical technician on a blue sterile field table a…

more into the career of surgical technicians because I used to work as a surgical tech intern at Sanford and was interested in possibly working as one in the future. Career Summary Responsibilities Surgical technicians, also known as surgical technologists, are a direct assistants to surgical staff. This includes the anesthesiologist, surgeon, and assisting nurses. A surgical tech’s main responsibility is to prepare, stock, and clean operating rooms. This way direct surgical staff have a…

interdisciplinary and or interprofessional teams. My Leadership SMART Goal is to provide the OR staff education in the efforts to reduce surgical site infections in colorectal surgical procedures. I am a member of an interprofessional committee called the Surgical Site Infection Committee or SSI that is focusing on this goal of reducing the rate of colorectal surgical site infections. One of the roles of a leader is to get things done, to make progress and improvements within an…

Nosocomial infections, or infections acquired from a healthcare setting, should always be on the mind of surgical technologists. Recently, nosocomial infection rates have risen, and a surgical technologist must be very diligent in maintaining the sterile technique in order to combat this. A common type of nosocomial infection is surgical site infections, or SSIs. SSIs result from a variety of sources, both endogenous (such as bacteria living on the patient’s skin) and exogenous (outside the…