Reminder
OR Manager Conference Attendees: Join us for breakfast and a General Session with Joe Tye in Osceola C-D at 6:30 am ET tomorrow (Wednesday) for additional CE credit.
OR Manager Conference launches PACU Manager Summit
As healthcare delivery shifts from a fee-for-service model to value-based care, providers must collaborate on everything from preoperative optimization to postoperative outcomes. To help nurse leaders responsible for the postanesthesia care unit (PACU), the 2017 OR Manager Conference has added the inaugural PACU Manager Summit, a 3-day program that targets…
2017 OR Manager Conference Exhibit Hall opens with 30th Anniversary Kickoff Party
The largest Exhibit Hall in the history of the OR Manager Conference is set to open at 4 pm ET on October 2. More than 190 vendors will showcase products and services designed to improve quality, safety, and efficiency in the operating room. The full list of participating vendors can…
OR Manager Conference bookstore
The annual OR Manager Conference bookstore, featuring 100+ titles, opens October 2 in the City Hall Lobby at The Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Florida. Books will be categorized by subject matter: clinical/study material, inspirational, conflict resolution, leadership, and finance. Books authored by 2017 OR Manager Conference speakers also will be…
Reminder
OR Manager Conference Attendees: Join us for a breakfast presentation by Ecolab in Osceola C-D at 6:30 am ET tomorrow (Tuesday) for additional CE credit.
The financial cost of physician burnout
Editor's Note A lack of awareness of the financial burden of physician burnout and uncertainty about what can be done to reduce or prevent it have been barriers to organizations taking action to address the problem, finds this study. Reviewing available evidence and analyzing the financial costs of physician burnout…
Joint Commission updates business rules for calculating Life Safety Code surveyor days
Editor's Note The Joint Commission on September 27 announced an update to its business rules that determine the number of days the Life Safety Code surveyor will be part of a hospitalโs survey. The changes, which will take effect January 1, 2018, include: Only square footage will be used to…
FDA alerts healthcare providers about EVAR graft endoleaks
Editor's Note The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on September 28 sent letters to vascular and cardiothoracic surgeons, radiologists, and cardiologists, alerting them to an increase in Type III endoleaks associated with endovascular graft systems used in endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic and aorto-iliac aneurysms. The FDAโs letter…
Preop conditions that predict postop outcomes, mortality in elderly
Editor's Note In patients 85 years of age and older, surgical complexity and certain geriatric variables (malnutrition, frailty), which are overlooked in American Society of Anesthesiologists and most other scores, were relevant in predicting postoperative outcomes and mortality, finds this study. Of 127 patients who completed follow-up, 30-day mortality was…
California department of Public Health issues penalties to 10 hospitals
Editor's Note The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on August 31 issued 10 penalties to 10 California hospitals along with fines totaling $618,002. Of these, three applied to the OR: Loma Linda University Medical Center, Murrietaโa patient sustained a full thickness thermal burn injury to the left calf from…