Operating Rooms

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Addressing Surgical Instrument Oversupply: A Focused Literature Review and Case-Study in Orthopedic Hand Surgery. 
  • Alcohol skin preparation causes surgical fires. 
  • Ambient operating room temperature: mother, baby or surgeon? 
  • An evidence-based intraoperative communication tool for emergency general surgery: a pilot study. 
  • Anesthetic Evolution in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Expert Perspectives From High-Volume Academic Centers in Europe and the United States. 
  • Assessing the Influence of Attending Surgeon Continuity on Free Flap Outcomes Following Unplanned Returns to the Operating Room. 
  • Battling the Chimaera: How Much Disclosure of Rare Risks Is Necessary? 
  • Can we make postoperative patient handovers safer? A systematic review of the literature. 
  • Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention. 
  • Changing practice locations for upper urinary tract stone disease. 
  • Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. 
  • Clinical factors affecting operating room utilization in cataract surgery: Results from the PCIOL study. 
  • Clinician perceptions of operating room to intensive care unit handoffs and implications for patient safety: a qualitative study. 
  • Cluster randomized trial to evaluate the impact of team training on surgical outcomes. 
  • Cold hemagglutinin disease in the operating room. 
  • Comparison of current and past surgical smoke control practices. 
  • Comparison of surgical and endoscopic sample collection for pancreatic cyst fluid biomarker identification. 
  • Contamination Relative to the Activation Timing of Filtered-Exhaust Helmets. 
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Initial Revision Digit Amputation Performed in the Emergency Department Versus the Operating Room. 
  • Curtailing Unnecessary Waste Among Operating Room Personnel: Evaluating the Cost Awareness of Commonly Used Surgical Items. 
  • Debriefing in the OR: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Delayed Sternal Closure in Infant Heart Surgery-The Importance of Where and When: An Analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Developing a high-efficiency operating room for total joint arthroplasty in an academic setting. 
  • Development and Feasibility Testing of a Device Briefing Tool and Training to Improve Patient Safety During Introduction of New Devices in Operating Rooms: Best Practices and Lessons Learned. 
  • Doulas in the Operating Room: An Innovative Approach to Supporting Skin-to-Skin Care During Cesarean Birth. 
  • Educational program in crisis management for cardiac surgery teams including high realism simulation. 
  • Educational value of the operating room experience during a core surgical clerkship. 
  • Effects of reflected CO2 laser energy on operative field materials: risks to patients and operating room personnel. 
  • European guidelines on structure and qualification of general thoracic surgery. 
  • Extending the use of inhaled anesthetics beyond the operating room: a giant snake creeping into the intensive care unit. 
  • Extending the width of an operating table using armboards. 
  • FOCUS: the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists' initiative to improve quality and safety in the cardiovascular operating room. 
  • Factors associated with the use of cognitive aids in operating room crises: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. 
  • Failure mode and effects analysis: a comparison of two common risk prioritisation methods. 
  • Fire in the operating room. 
  • Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data. 
  • Glove perforations in ophthalmic surgery. 
  • Guidelines for the Use of Transesophageal Echocardiography to Assist with Surgical Decision-Making in the Operating Room: A Surgery-Based Approach: From the American Society of Echocardiography in Collaboration with the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • Handovers from the OR to the ICU. 
  • Identified themes of interactive visualizations overlayed onto EHR data: an example of improving birth center operating room efficiency. 
  • Impact of preoperative briefings on operating room delays: a preliminary report. 
  • Impact of the Learning Curve on Intraoperative Surgical Time in Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery. 
  • Implementation of a colour-coded universal protocol safety initiative in Guatemala. 
  • Implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist in South Carolina Hospitals Is Associated with Improvement in Perceived Perioperative Safety. 
  • In Response. 
  • In-House Anesthesia and Interventional Radiology Technologist Support Optimize Mechanical Thrombectomy Workflow after Hours. 
  • Index and follow-up costs of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair from the Endurant Stent Graft System Post Approval Study (ENGAGE PAS). 
  • Investment in new technology research can save future health care dollars. 
  • Laparoscopic colectomy for cancer: a favorable opinion. 
  • Local cost structures and the economics of robot assisted radical prostatectomy. 
  • Management of the Implant With Taper Corrosion: What to Change and What to Change It to? 
  • Measuring surgical trainee perceptions to assess the operating room educational environment. 
  • Microscope-Integrated Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in the Operating Room in Young Children With Retinal Vascular Disease. 
  • Mood and cognitive functions in anaesthetists working in actively scavenged operating theatres. 
  • Multi-institutional comparison of helicopter transfers directly to the operating room versus the pit stop in the emergency department. 
  • Music and ambient operating room noise in patients undergoing spinal anesthesia. 
  • Music meets surgery: two sides to the art of "healing". 
  • Narrative feedback from OR personnel about the safety of their surgical practice before and after a surgical safety checklist intervention. 
  • Objective assessment of mastoidectomy skills in the operating room. 
  • Occupational Radiation Exposure of Anesthesia Providers: A Summary of Key Learning Points and Resident-Led Radiation Safety Projects. 
  • Operating Room Crisis Checklists and Emergency Manuals. 
  • Operating Room Delays: Meaningful Use in Electronic Health Record. 
  • Operating Room-to-ICU Patient Handovers: A Multidisciplinary Human-Centered Design Approach. 
  • Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. 
  • Operating room debriefings. 
  • Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder. 
  • Operating room to intensive care unit handoffs and the risks of patient harm. 
  • Optimization of operating room allocation using linear programming techniques. 
  • Patient safety in surgery. 
  • Patients with DNR orders in the operating room: surgery, resuscitation, and outcomes. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Pediatric Transfusion Algorithms: Coming to a Cardiac Operating Room Near You. 
  • Perception of Safety of Surgical Practice Among Operating Room Personnel From Survey Data Is Associated With All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate in South Carolina. 
  • Pilot Use of a Novel Tool to Assess Neurosurgical Capacity in Uganda. 
  • Pilot testing of a model for insurer-driven, large-scale multicenter simulation training for operating room teams. 
  • Postoperative handoff communication: a simulation-based training method. 
  • Predictors of operative time during radical retropubic prostatectomy and robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy. 
  • Preparing for Total Power Failure in the Operating Room. 
  • Process Improvement Initiative for the Perioperative Management of Patients With a Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device. 
  • Radiofrequency Identification Track for Tray Optimization: An Instrument Utilization Pilot Study in Surgical Oncology. 
  • Rational perioperative utilisation and management during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Rebound tonometry by iCare 200 (IC200): comparison with Tono-Pen in the operating room and Goldmann applanation in the clinic. 
  • Relationship Between Operating Room Teamwork, Contextual Factors, and Safety Checklist Performance. 
  • Resident training in a teaching hospital: How do attendings teach in the real operative environment? 
  • Results of a survey on current surgical smoke control practices. 
  • Review article: perioperative checklist methodologies. 
  • Risk of sharp device-related blood and body fluid exposure in operating rooms. 
  • Safety in the OR: who's in and who's out? 
  • Say what you mean to say: improving patient handoffs in the operating room and beyond. 
  • Scaling Safety: The South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist Experience. 
  • Sleep safe in clean hands: Improving hand hygiene compliance in the operating room through education and increased access to hand hygiene products. 
  • State-of-the-art fluid management in the operating room. 
  • Streamlining Postoperative Void Trials: A Study Comparing Standard Backfill Versus Backfill in the Operating Room. 
  • Surgical Procedure Characteristics and Risk of Sharps-Related Blood and Body Fluid Exposure. 
  • Surgical Team Stability and Risk of Sharps-Related Blood and Body Fluid Exposures During Surgical Procedures. 
  • Surgical capacity building in Uganda through twinning, technology, and training camps. 
  • Surgical team behaviors and patient outcomes. 
  • Surgical team member assessment of the safety of surgery practice in 38 South Carolina hospitals. 
  • Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel. 
  • Technical skills improve after practice on virtual-reality temporal bone simulator. 
  • The ACGME competencies in the operating room. 
  • The Critical Portions of Carpal Tunnel Surgery: A Comparison Between Opinions of Surgeons and the General Public. 
  • The Impact of Ergonomics on Recruitment to Surgical Fields: A Multi-Institutional Survey Study. 
  • The Surgical Autonomy Program: A Pilot Study of Social Learning Theory Applied to Competency-Based Neurosurgical Education. 
  • The Surgical Safety Checklist and Teamwork Coaching Tools: a study of inter-rater reliability. 
  • Time of day effects on the incidence of anesthetic adverse events. 
  • Total hospital costs of surgical treatment for adult spinal deformity: an extended follow-up study. 
  • Uncovering the History of Operating Room Attire through Photographs. 
  • Utilizing a novel tool for the comprehensive assessment of resident operative performance. 
  • World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist Modification: Do Changes Emphasize Communication and Teamwork? 
  • [Analysis of incidence patterns and bacterial sensitivity in a surgical unit using microcomputers]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery, Urology
  • Taekman, Jeffrey Marc, Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia