Operating Room

If current reimbursement trends continue, reimbursement for time in the OR performing arthroplasty surgery may be equal to the time spent in the office seeing Medicare patients within the next 5 years, according to published results.

Surgeons should play an active role in optimizing performance and minimizing fatigue and injury of their surgical teams by being aware of ergonomics in the OR, according to a presenter at the Women in Medicine Summit.

Deep sedation used outside of the operating room may be a convenient alternative to general anesthesia in pediatric eye procedures, according to a poster presentation.

Patients undergoing spine surgery and their families reported low knowledge of concurrent and overlapping surgery, as well as moderate discomfort with its use, according to results.

Medium-sized ORs, younger patients, longer emergency and trauma procedures and higher American Society of Anesthesiologists scores are risk factors for the development of surgical site infection, according to published results.

Cataract surgeons believe more reusable and multiuse options are needed to decrease operating room waste, according to a presentation at the virtual American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting.

Intraoperative scrub nurse hand-offs during total hip and knee arthroplasty cases performed at a major, urban academic center were associated with increased OR times of as much as 18 minutes, based on results of a retrospective study.

Use of laminar air flow for OR ventilation is not associated with reduced incidence of periprosthetic joint infection following total hip and knee arthroplasties, according to recently presented results.