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Timothy Dowd, MD is managing partner and chairman of North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) and CEO of NAPA Management Services Corp., the largest single-specialty anesthesia management company in the United States.   Q: What makes operating room efficiency so…

Researchers found four simple modifications helped reduce costs and procedure times associated with robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, according to a study published in the Journal of Endourology.

Technological breakthroughs now allow surgeons to remove entire brain tumors, according to a Free Press news report.

Small tweaks can improve a hospital’s operating room efficiency, boosting communication with physicians, trimming turnover times and leaving patients and families more satisfied with their experience. Here, Robert Friedberg, vice president of operations at Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) in Winfield,…

Intubation with an Airway Scope offered high success rates when tracheal intubation is required in a laterally positioned patient, according to a study published in the March 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

The same kind of three-dimensional technology hitting movie theaters is making its way into hospital operating rooms, according to a local ABC news report.

  A study published in AORN Journal suggests the addition of a new staff member – an intraoperative monitoring technician – could improve hospital operating room efficiency and also improve patient outcomes.

Brent Lambert, MD, founding principal, and Luke Lambert, CEO, of ASCOA, make regular visits to ambulatory surgery centers throughout the United States which are struggling financially and in need of a turnaround. They say some of these facilities can be…

Canadian University Health Network healthcare professionals outlined key actions that were taken to transform the culture of the operating room into one of respect, positivism and efficiency, according to an article published in AORN Journal.

General anesthesia is more akin to going into a "reversible coma" than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to a Boston Globe report.