hypothermia generates potentially severe complications in operating or recovery room. forced air warmer is effective to maintain body temperature. extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (elf-emf) is harmful to human body and mainly produced by electronic equipment including convective air warming system. we investigated elf-emf from convective air warming device on various temperature se...

background and purpose: the objective of medical education is to train competent and qualified workforce in order to provide services in various health environments. one of the important objectives of operating room students is to train workforce who can involve in patient’s health and recovery. training these students should cause clinical ability and independent decision making during surgery...

objective: to determine the epidemiology and pattern of emergency operating room workload in nemazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran. methods: all surgical emergency operations which were performed in nemazee hospital, shiraz, iran were collected over twelve months (september 2007 to september 2008). the data obtained included indications, presenting...

This paper provides a review of recent research on operating room planning and scheduling. We evaluate the literature on multiple fields that are related to either the problem setting (e.g. performance measures or patient classes) or the technical features (e.g. solution technique or uncertainty incorporation). Since papers are pooled and evaluated in various ways, a diversified and detailed ov...

The operating room (OR) department of a hospital forms the heart of the organization, where the single largest cost is incurred. This document presents and reports on the “Operating Room Manager Game”, developed to give insight into managing a large hospital’s OR department at various levels of control, and the difficulties of applying OR/MS techniques in healthcare. The players take on the rol...