Ambient operating room temperature: mother, baby or surgeon?

Surgeon profiling: a key to optimum operating room use.

HYPOTHESIS A high-efficiency Pod, composed of 3 parallel-processing operating rooms (ORs) and a dedicated 3-bed miniature postanesthesia care unit, can be filled with surgeons capable of converting time saved from parallel processing into incremental volume. DESIGN Statistical and mathematical modeling. SETTING Academic medical center with 52 serial-processing ORs, 1 parallel-processing OR,...

Direct Surgeon Control of the Computer in the Operating Room

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a joystick-like device that allows direct surgeon control of the computer in the operating room. The device contains no electronic parts, is easy to use, is unobtrusive, has no physical connection to the computer, and makes use of an existing surgical tool. The device was tested in comparison to a mouse and to verbal dictation.

Operating room pollution--or is it contamination?

A room-temperature semiconductor spaser operating near 1.5 μm.

Room temperature spasing of surface plasmon polaritons at 1.46 μm wavelength has been demonstrated by sandwiching a gold-film plasmonic waveguide between optically pumped InGaAs quantum-well gain media. The spaser exhibits gain narrowing, the expected transverse-magnetic polarization, and mirror feedback provided by cleaved facets in a 1-mm long cavity fabricated with a flip-chip approach. The ...

A Ge-on-Si laser operating at room temperature

Monolithic lasers on Si are ideal for high volume and large-scale electronic-photonic integration. Ge is an interesting candidate due to its pseudo-direct gap properties and compatibility with Si complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Recently we have demonstrated room temperature photoluminescence, electroluminescence and optical gain from the direct gap transition of band-...