May 29, 2023
Between Season 7 & 8, we're rereleasing some of our most popular episodes from seasons past! Enjoy!
It’s very hard to tell that a micro instrument is damaged, until it’s seen underneath a microscope – then the damage is immediately obvious. Micro instruments require special care and handling to protect them and to...
May 26, 2023
How many times do you handle privacy curtains during a regular shift? In surgical services, we often have privacy curtains in our preoperative and postoperative areas. How often do we touch the curtain, and then touch the patient? Do you know what contaminants have been found on privacy curtains? In today's First Case...
May 24, 2023
This week's episode of the First Case "Articles On-The-Go" series is written by Melanie Perry, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM. In this article, Melanie offers 5 tips for handling stress in the Operating Room.
"The operating room environment will always have associated stress, it's just the nature of what we do. But that doesn't...
May 22, 2023
“1, 2, 3, 4…. We’re missing a sponge…Let’s count again.” Does this conversation sound familiar? Manual surgical counts are a standard procedure for every surgical case, but studies show that incidences of retained surgical items (RSIs) continue to occur even when the count has been reported as correct. In...
May 15, 2023
When you buy Capital Equipment, do you purchase through the manufacturer, or do you use a distributor? What are the benefits to purchasing through a distributor? Joining us today to discuss the role of the Capital Equipment Distributor is Jonathan Murphy, Regional Account Executive at Didage and Surgical Power. In this...