PAINLESS SURGICAL OPERATIONS.

Surgical Suites’ Operations Management

S suites are a key driver of a hospital’s costs, revenues, and utilization of postoperative resources such as beds. This article describes some commonly occurring operations management problems faced by the managers of surgical suites. For three of these problems, the article also provides preliminary models and possible solution approaches. Its goal is to identify open challenges to spur furth...

Early Surgical Operations *

In inviting me to give the Carmalt lecture, the Beaumont Medical Club has tendered me a signal honor, the more so because it is in such distinguished surroundings, for here exists a culture which is traditional. You have in New Haven not only one of our greatest universities, but you enjoy also a great teaching center of historical medicine. Therefore, I cannot fail to appreciate the privilege ...

Myocardial infarction following surgical operations.

One hundred and forty-one randomly selected surgical patients, aged 35 years or over, were studied preoperatively, followed through their operative procedures, and reassessed during the first post-operative week for evidence of myocardial ischaemia associated with surgical operations under general anaesthesia. Of these patients 38% were found to have preoperative clinical evidence of heart dise...

Local Analgesia in Surgical Operations

The skilful employment of local analgesia in surgery can only be relied upon where due consideration is paid to a variety of factors, so numerous that their mastery calls for no small degree of patience, and so essential that the neglect of any one of them will almost certainly lead to some degree of failure. The factors which it is necessary to consider may be reviewed under the following head...

Painless Childbirth