The aim of our work is to reduce the stress and strain for the medical staff and simultaneously to increase the efficiency and safety of an integrated operating room system (SIOS) by an ergonomic redesign of the system. SIOS system is a central control system developed by Siemens Medical Solutions mainly used for laparoscopic operations. This new integrated system has been created to improve th...

Dr. Kirby Sweitzer of Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio, assists a young patient during a recent visit to Honduras. More than a decade ago, Joan Buck, RN, surgical staff nurse, and Judy Melnyk, RN, surgery/operating room instructor — both longtime employees at Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio — started collecting clean but "contaminated" surgical materials for annual medical mission trip...

Allocation scheduling for daily surgical cases is a decision-making process tasked to anesthesiologists and nurse managers in the operating room (OR). This manuscript focuses on three major areas: the classification and principles of allocation scheduling on workdays in China, flexible strategies of operational decision-making given differences in planned versus actual OR allocations, and perio...

Objective: Electrosurgery is used in almost all surgeries. The entire surgical team working these operating rooms exposed to smoke. In the literature, there no study examining direct effect of smoke on room staff and involving sampling. This aimed examine air quality due Material Methods: descriptive was conducted August 2018 department general surgery a university hospital. Air samples were ta...

Background: COVID-19 has had an impact on nurse exposure, including in the operating room. Nurse rotation is intended to minimize exposure COVID-19. However, problems caused by might interfere with performance due rapid adaptation required. Objective: This study aims determine relationship between employee and of nurses during pandemic. Methods: An analytical descriptive cross-sectional involvi...

UNLABELLED We studied when allocated, but unfilled, operating room (OR) time of surgical services should be released to maximize OR efficiency. OR time was allocated for two surgical suites based on OR efficiency. Then, we analyzed real OR schedules. We added new hypothetical cases lasting 1, 2, or 3 h into OR time of the service that had the largest difference between allocated and scheduled c...

Background: The intent of this paper is to compare the impact of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) design upon nursing staff by investigating the number of footsteps walked per shift and complaints of physical distress following the relocation of a NICU from a traditional open-bay design, where many babies receive care in one large room, and a new single-family room NICU in which each baby re...