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.

Do sales reps in the operating room lend helpful expertise or inflate already bloated costs? Depends on whom you ask. (John Fedele/Getty Images) In the operating room, surgical masks and matching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include additional responses from Veterans Affairs. The troubled Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center continues to run at diminished capacity after ...

There's a lot of excitement about ambient artificial intelligence in healthcare, but smart hospital platform Artisight has its eyes on developing fully hands-free autonomous monitoring and ...

In an operating room at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a collection of video cameras, microphones and other sensors monitor the scene, from the delicate surgical procedure to the number of times a ...

In the operating room, surgical masks and matching scrubs can make it hard to tell who’s who—at least for outsiders. Patients getting wheeled in might not realize that salespeople working on ...