Editor's Note America’s Blood Centers (ABC) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Stop the Bleed program have launched a national collaboration to strengthen trauma response and emergency preparedness, according to a May 30 announcement. The initiative connects public education in bleeding control with efforts to maintain a stable national…

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Editor's Note Simple hysterectomy provides similar long-term survival outcomes to modified radical or radical hysterectomy for patients with low-risk, early-stage cervical cancer, according to a large cohort study published May 15 in JAMA Network Open. Consistent with prior research, the findings add to the growing body of evidence supporting conservative…

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Editor's Note Research shows patients undergoing procedural sedation for endoscopic procedures experience significant and often undetected heat loss comparable to that seen during general anesthesia despite widespread assumptions that sedation preserves thermoregulation. Findings were published May 27 in The Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing.   Conducted at a tertiary hospital in…

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Editor's Note An AI-powered wearable camera has achieved 99.6% accuracy in detecting potentially deadly drug mix-ups, including in the OR, NBC News reported May 25. Developed by Kelly Michaelsen, MD, at UW Medicine, the smart glasses scan medication labels in real time, alerting anesthesia providers to syringe-vial mismatches before drugs…

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Editor's Note Filling out OR Manager’s Career/Salary Survey may take only 15 minutes, but perioperative leaders are busy people. Recognizing that even small blocks of time may be hard to find, we’ve extended the deadline through June 27. We wouldn’t want anyone to miss a chance to help forecast what’s…

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Editor's Note Patients with more severe burns are more likely to undergo early surgical intervention, according to a May 27 report in Physician’s Weekly summarizing a multicenter cohort study published in Burns Open. The study was based on 3,291 adult cases from three burn centers between 2009 and 2021 According…

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Editor's Note Capability to achieve results on par with or better than humans using laparoscopic techniques demonstrates the extent to which autonomous surgical robots are rapidly evolving toward clinical readiness, according to John Hopkins University robotics researchers writing may 27 in IEEE Spectrum. The system detailed in the article, Johns…

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Editor's Note Researchers studying the exposure of sterile surgical slush to open air urge the adoption of closed-system technology to alleviate risks to sterility and surgical outcomes, according to a May 19 article in OR today. The article focuses on a time and motion study led by perioperative nursing leaders…

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Preventing infection from contaminated surgical tools requires attention to every link in a complex chain of processes, from point-of-use pretreatment in the OR to the moment the freshly disinfected or sterilized item arrives at the next patient’s bedside. For those on the front lines, manufacturers’ written instructions for use (IFUs)…

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Editor's Note The United States recorded more than 1.5 million excess deaths in 2022 and 2023 alone—avoidable fatalities that would not have occurred if US death rates matched those of other wealthy nations, according to a May 23 article in CIDRAP reporting on a Boston University–led study published in JAMA…

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