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• Value assessment of a trauma hybrid OR
• SHEA: Strategies to prevent SSIs updated
• FDA: Class I recall of Draeger Medical’s Seattle PAP Plus, breathing circuit/anesthesia kits
• Surgeon-scientists represent less than 2% of all investigators awarded NIH funding
• New EHR generative AI by Microsoft, Epic currently being piloted
• Development of a definition for long COVID
• The Joint Commission seeking comments on proposed new infection control requirements for hospitals, critical access hospitals
• Using human-AI collaboration to monitor PPE donning, doffing
• The Joint Commission: Licensed independent practitioner term eliminated from AHC, OBS accreditation programs
• Projected growth of nursing, OR-related occupations 2021-2031