I’m a surgeon, and I couldn’t be more excited about the potential for communications tools to democratize access to essential knowledge in my profession. Throughout the history of modern surgery, ...

If you've ever wondered about what goes on in the operating room — whether you've been a patient or not — then your curiosity is about to be satiated. Shannon Fagan / Getty Images Recently, I spoke ...

As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

The concept of a hybrid operating room is new to health care and is an advanced procedural space that takes a traditional operating room and combines it with an image-guided interventional suite. This ...

A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital reveals that computer software that helps inform clinicians' decisions about a patient's care can prevent 95% of medication errors in ...

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 ...

Whether it's an impoverished nation, a battlefield or a disaster site, there are places where doctors have to perform surgery outside of a sterile operating room. That's where the SurgiField system ...

Mark Strand, a married father of three from Nokesville, Virginia, said he knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. "I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers, not super high," he ...

Mark Strand, 68, knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. “I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers,” Strand said. “And the PET scan revealed, in the end, a mass on top of my head.” ...

The first prefabricated operating room in the world with fully automated disinfection technology opened recently at the University of Rochester Medicine Orthopedics Surgery Center in Henrietta, N.Y.