Properly trained certified surgical first assistants can greatly improve operating room efficiency, physician satisfaction and, most importantly, patient outcome and care, according to Debra Woods, ...

The present as well as the future holds exciting opportunities for advanced practice nurses (APNs), not the least of which is participation during surgery as a first assistant. In 1990, when the ...

I was primed to sweat my way through a high-stakes procedure. But once the patient was sedated, a welcome warmth entered the room ...

Chances are, unless you work in the operating room, you are wondering what in the world that is. When I introduce myself to a patient in the preoperative area, they often ask me what I actually do. I ...

How can robots and humans work together as effectively as possible in the operating room of the future? Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TUM University Hospital ...