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So many surgical firsts occurred during the 19th century! 🧐 Many of these discoveries 🔬led to procedures that are still being performed today. Let’s look at some of the surgical firsts and discoveries that occurred during this time. ✔ 1818: First blood transfusion 💉 ✔ 1846: Ether used for the first time as an inhalation anesthetic 😷 ✔ 1855: Mary Edwards Walker is the first woman to graduate from medical school; 👩⚕️she becomes America’s first female surgeon ✔ 1867: Joseph Lister publishes “Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery,” which discusses cleanliness and hand washing 🙌 for surgery, principles that will carry over into modern day surgical nursing with surgical scrubbing before surgery ✔ 1885: First appendectomy performed in Iowa 😷 ✔ 1895: First X-ray 🩻 performed in Germany Whether you’re a new perioperative nurse, an educator or a preceptor, the Stitch🪡has you covered. What’s your favorite surgical first? Tell us in the comments below and share this with the surgical history buff in your OR. Link to more surgical history in the comment below. #AORNStitch #surgerylife #perioperative #ORlife #nurse

Critical Care Ultimate Guide: All You Need To Know About Critical Care (Nursing, Medicine, Paramedic, Transport) (Emergency, Health, Surgery, Clinical) Price: (as of – Details) ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013PR8F1K Language ‏ : ‎ English File size ‏ : ‎ 1405 KB Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled Print length ‏ : ‎ 34 pages Price: (as of – Details) ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013PR8F1K Language ‏ : ‎ English File size ‏ : ‎ 1405 KB Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled Print length ‏ : ‎ 34 pages

The article emphasizes the importance of open communication within the perfusion and cardiothoracic surgery community to improve patient safety and outcomes. It advocates for all team members, including nurses, anesthesiologists, and perfusionists, to actively share insights and concerns. #CardiothoracicSurgery #OpenCommunication #PatientSafety #PerfusionCare

Understanding Assistant Surgeon Modifiers This article provides an overview of assistant surgeon modifiers and assistant at surgery services, drawing on current regulations and best practices. https://lnkd.in/d4ZtAHK6 #medicalbillingandcoding #medicalbillingcompany #medicalbilling #medicalbillingservices

This AORN Journal feature article discusses a randomized controlled study aimed to investigate the effect that preoperative education provided by the perioperative nurse about the OR environment and intraoperative care has on surgical fear in patients. Key takeaways included: ✔️Many patients experience preoperative fear and anxiety before a surgical procedure. Their fear may be related to the surgery itself, the anesthesia, or the potential for a poor outcome. ✔️A total of 92 surgical patients were evenly split into the control and intervention groups. ✔️Using the Surgical Fear Questionnaire, patient fear and anxiety levels were assessed in the patients’ rooms the day before surgery, in the clinic before education, and on arrival to the OR after education. ✔️Reducing patients’ fear by providing education specific to the OR environment can have a positive effect on anxiety related to surgical interventions. Read the article at https://bit.ly/4ashlcl and share with colleagues. #surgerylife #perioperative

Outlining practical ways to improve #patientaccess through increased use of #nursepractitioners, Mayfield’s Jody Beckington, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC presented this past weekend in Salt Lake City to the AANN: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. Launching nurse practitioner spine clinics at our patient offices has led to more effective and efficient treatment, either through conservative measures or surgery. Meet the Mayfield care teams that are improving both the #patientexperience and #patientoutcomes. https://lnkd.in/guNifRk7 #spinecare #backpain #independentpractice

What's An #anesthesia machine?! is a vital piece of equipment used during surgical procedures to administer and monitor anesthesia to patients. It ensures the safe delivery of gases, such as oxygen and anesthetic agents, to keep patients sedated and pain-free during surgery. #biomedicalengineering #biomedicalengineer #healthcare #nursing #hospital

Having surgery is a stressful and anxiety-inducing event in anyone’s life. In our new article, we talk about helpful postoperative care tips for nurses to help patients recover from surgical procedures as easily and comfortably as possible. Read our new article here: https://lnkd.in/gmri_8Wc #NursingTips #MedaHealth

💡Can Digital Care Journeys help increase Bariatric Referral to Surgery + surgical volume while reducing workforce burden? Surgery coordinators are bogged down with managing referrals manually, tracking patient milestone completions on excel sheets, making phone calls to nudge patients about pre-surgery milestones, and more – resulting in staff burnout, delays in care & losing patients along the way. #DigitalCareJourneys empower the whole team – RNs, Coordinators, Nurse Practitioners, Directors – via a bird’s-eye view of recovery progress across the entire patient population, receive alerts for patients at risk of missing milestones, predict surgical volumes, increase surgery scheduling & more🎯 Learn more today about how SeamlessMD can support your team 👉 https://hubs.li/Q01_CFDQ0 #ReferralToSurgery #InsuranceMilestones #Healthcare #SurgicalWaitTimes #HealthcareAutomation