BACKGROUND Rapid and safe airway management has always been of paramount importance in successful management of critically ill and injured patients in the emergency department. The purpose of our study was to determine success rates of bag-mask ventilation and tracheal intubation performed by emergency medicine residents before and after completing their anesthesiology curriculum. METHODS A p...

introduction: global patient safety is the concern of all areas of the health care. in addition to the human suffering in those inflicted unsafe care and services, it has a heavy economic cost. due to the sensitive patient safety in the operation rooms, the present study aimed to assess patient safety in the operating rooms. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study that was conduct...

OBJECTIVE To assess the operative time indicators in a public university hospital. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using data from operating room database. The sample was obtained from January 2011 to January 2012. The operations performed in sequence in the same operating room, between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm, elective or emergency, were included. The procedures with in...

BACKGROUND Medical errors are inherently of concern in modern health care. Although surgical errors as incorrect surgery (e.g., wrong patient, wrong site, or wrong procedure) are infrequent, they are devastating events to experience. To gain insight about incidents that could lead to incorrect surgery, we surveyed how surgical team members perceive near misses and their attitudes towards the us...

abstract background: nurses as the major group of health service providers need to have a satisfactory quality of work life in order to give desirable care to the patients. workplace violence is one of the most important factors that cause decline in the quality of work life. this study aimed to determine the quality of work life of nurses in selected hospitals of isfahan university of medical ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of simulation-based education on patient safety during pediatric procedural sedation. DESIGN A prospective, observational, single-blind, controlled study of pediatric procedural sedation outside the operating room. SETTING Two university teaching hospitals in Israel. PARTICIPANTS Nonanesthesiologists, with or without training in simulation-based education ...

The 180-bed Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, a teaching hospital located in Cooperstown, New York is Bassett Healthcare’s core inpatient facility was faced with a significant challenge: of preparing for an anticipated growth of 30% in its surgical services over a short period of time due to a planned expansion of Bassett’s surgical services and the unanticipated closings and downsizing of other h...

PURPOSE This paper uses discrete event simulation to explore the best resource flexibility scenario and examine the effect of implementing resource flexibility on different stages of patient treatment process. Specifically we investigate the effect of resource flexibility on patient waiting time and throughput in an orthopedic care process. We further seek to explore on how implementation of re...

“How much does one minute of OR time cost?” is a question often asked in the operating room (OR) suite. We hear this question during cases that seem to be taking longer than they should, or when a missing piece of equipment delays the next step of the surgery. This question also arises if there is a last-minute cancellation that leaves the OR unexpectedly idle until another case can be assigned...

Concerns about pending retirement of nurses working in the operating room (OR) are undeniable. The nurses' work environment and level of perceived support is part of the equation of why a nurse may choose to retire or stay in the workforce. This study compares nurses' perceptions of the work environment between OR nurses and nurses who work in other type units; and compares the work environment...