Three years ago, Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC became the first hospital to fully discontinue using nitrous oxide in its operating room, and it has never looked back. Nitrous oxide, more ...

A man who was declared brain dead after a drug overdose woke up on the operating table as doctors prepared to harvest his ...

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Natasha Mazinani never imagined she would be in an operating room during robotic heart surgery. Mazinani had just completed her first year at FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (FIU Medicine) ...

A Miami doctor was arrested after police said he was caught on camera allegedly sexually battering a sedated patient during a cosmetic procedure last year. Dr. Ronald Freeman DeMeo, 63, was arrested ...

LAS VEGAS – Hospitals are exploring new ways to connect surgical and inpatient care using digital tools and real-time data, with technologies such as smart OR systems that provide new connectivity for ...

SAN ANTONIO – An 82-year-old Baptist Health System patient says the hospital’s newest hybrid operating room helped save his life after doctors found a dangerous aneurysm. Daniel Amendola was facing ...

AI promised safer surgeries and smarter medical devices, but FDA incident reports tell a different story. Since 2021, AI-enhanced surgical tools have logged a disturbing spike in malfunctions and ...

For decades, hospitals have relied on desflurane, a popular anesthetic, to put patients to sleep on the operating table. But the chemical is a potent greenhouse gas, so regulators, health systems and ...

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“This is an industry-first collaboration that brings AI into outpatient operating rooms to support surgeons in real time and improve efficiencies and outcomes across every step of the patient journey, ...

An initiative that encouraged surgery patients to bring their own reusable bags for belongings and a reusable water bottle led to reductions in surgical carbon footprints, waste, and cost, a new study ...