Like a well-oiled machine, hospital operating room protocol could always use a tune-up. ORs rely on several moving parts to conduct surgeries safely and efficiently, and all of the moving parts have ...

Surgery in UC Hospital operating room, 1924. This photograph from 1924, taken in one of the operating rooms at the University of California Hospital (present day UCSF), is spare and almost austere.

People often worry if they'll panic or if it will hurt. Research and experience show that patients generally tolerate wide-awake surgery well.

Robert Caplan, M.D., chair of the ASA Task Force on Operating Room Fires, said the lack of a national reporting system for operating room fires makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly how many occur ...

On average, 51 Million surgical inpatient procedures are performed in the United States each year. With the increased focus on wellness, preventative, and team-based medicine, an introduction of new ...

The authors analyzed the impacts of COVID-19 on orthopedic operating room efficiency via comparison of 14,856 surgeries performed before, during, and after the pandemic. Objective: The COVID-19 ...