An operating-room nurse has ranked the 10 surgeries he would least want to undergo, and the number one entry is a major ...

The operating room (OR) can be a mysterious place. It has long been a relatively hidden medical environment, where the only people who know what happens in it are the on-duty medics. However, new ...

As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

To those who are waiting for it to end right now.The scheduled time has passed. I still haven't been called.I am writing this ...

Surgery has the ability to save lives, but a number of hazards lurking in operating rooms. Surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, assistants and other professionals working in surgical environments put ...

With extreme precision needed for certain medical operations, state-of-the-art robots offer a way to make surgery easier. In a surgery in India, a robot scans a patient's knee to figure out how best ...

A study published in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal is believed to be the first of its kind to link operating room design to the length of knee- and hip-replacement surgeries. The ...

Surgery involves a well-choreographed dance among medical professionals in the operating room (OR). Doctors perform operations, but those with other jobs in the operating room ensure that procedures ...