Operating Room Safe Practice Manual
The operating room is clearly one of the most hazardous environments in the healthcare delivery system. By definition, surgery is invasive. Instruments that are designed to penetrate patients’ tissue can just as easily injure the provider. Blood is …
The Vascular Surgery Operating Room
Physicians are faced with a number of challenges in the current medical environment. These challenges include significant changes in the demographics of the patients we treat, rapid advances in technology, increased costs to provide these services, …
Petfood Industry Magazine Subscription February 2011 Issue
Petfood Industry brings you every month the latest news in the petfood manufacturing industry. Regular features include Editorial Notes by their resident expert Tim Phillips, European Report by Peter Best covering the latest news in Europe, E-News r…
SP2 Magazine for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Community
sp2 Magazine fulfills the needs of the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology community with its highly regarded editorial coverage of industry news and business and technological developments from drug discovery through to scale-up and commerciali…
Petfood Industry Magazine
Petfood Industry is written exclusively for individuals and firms involved with manufacturing pet food for global retail markets. Published monthly, Petfood Industry ovides th elatest news in the pet food manufacturing industry. Regular columns pres…
Hospital Delivery Rooms Isolation of Potential Pathogenic Bacteria from the Air
This study aimed to investigate the hygienic conditions of the air at delivery and nursing rooms at some hospital located in Kartoum district Sudan. Bacterial infections still play considerable role in diseases in Sudan. Air is not a suitable medium…
Materials Management in Health Care Magazine
Department managers who are responsible to purchase and manage health care supplies and equipment must turn to Materials Management in Health Care to study the cost-effective purchase, management and use of supplies, equipment and resources. Materia…
How to Reduce Exposure Risk in the Operating Room
The purpose of this article is to evaluate and recommend current best practices related to safe handling of sharp instruments in reducing transmission of blood borne pathogens, specifically HIV, in the operating suite. The information in this paper …
Hospital Operating Room Planning : analyzing strategies and problem settings
Operating room planning is a complex task which has to consider many aspects such as surgeon scheduling, operating team scheduling (included anaesthetic personnel), patient related information, (i.e. estimated operating time, priority and diagnosis)…
Health Care Operating Rooms Evaluation as Wet/Dry Locations
A key area of debate in the most recent revision cycle of NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities has been the topic of electrical environments in hospital operating rooms and whether they need to be classified as a wet location or dry location. This study …