psychological, sociological, cultural, moral and ethical impacts on human life, in particular the patients that undergo surgery involving a robotic surgical system, and the environmental impacts of robotics in surgery. It is our hope that through this research paper that we are able to explain to and educate our readers on the impacts of Robotic Surgery as this type of surgery is becoming more popular with doctors in order to
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Spinal surgeries Of all the spinal surgeries, Spinal Fusion is the most popular and most sought out treatment for back pain problems. One of the reasons for wide acceptance of Spinal Fusion procedure was may be due to the fact that the procedure doesn’t involve removal of any body part unlike Spinal Discectomy or Laminectomy. While the Fusion procedure is an improvement and better alternative over the other two for back problems, it still is a medical procedure with significant risk. The patient
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Universal Protocol. I chose this goal for myself to ensure that all nurses are consistently including all required information each and every time in the surgical time-out procedure and as a result will increase patient safety regarding wrong site surgery. SMART Goal 2 is the organizational planning goal which is to educate all staff on the required dry time for surgical skin prep liquids used in the operating room. I chose this goal after the sales representatives from Duraprep and Chloraprep gave
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As a helping professional serving a culturally diverse population, how open would you be to incorporating the assistance and expertise of traditional healers from a culture with whom you are unfamiliar? I would be open to inviting more traditional and possibly healers from “Eastern” medicine into the clinical environment. Unfortunately, even if lightning struck and it was going to happen tomorrow, there are numerous hurdles, which our text spells out, to consider. In a typical traditionally healing
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Surgical scrubbing is an important factor in order to prevent infections on patients who are undergoing surgery. All hospitals should follow specific protocols on how to perform a surgical scrub in order to prevent surgical site infections. The purpose of this study was to see which circulating nurse had the least amount of bacteria on their hands after the initial scrub depending on what they used to scrub their hands. This study was conducted on 60 circulating nurses. There was one control group
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Short name |Operating theatre performance | | |Detailed name |Efficiency of use of the operating theatre for elective and emergency surgery (inpatient| | |and outpatient). | |Short definition |Percent of usefully spend time (directly with patient) in operating theatre. | |Rationale |Justification
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Hall v. Hibun In 1985, a case was brought forward against Dr. Hilbun, a general surgeon who performed surgery on Terry Hall. She was complaining about abdominal pain. He consulted and operated on her for a small bowel obstruction, which she consented to. After he observed her in the recovery room, he left for the night. Throughout the night, she started having more and more pain and her vital signs were abnormal, but Dr. Hilbun was never notified of such pain. He was notified about another patient
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Patient Safety The night flow team had picked up a woman in her late 60s with a history of diverticulosis presenting to the ED with bleeding from the rectum. She was scheduled for colonoscopy the next day and orders were placed for NPO (nothing by mouth) after midnight and GoLytely (bowel cleanser) to be finished within three hours before midnight. As a third year medical student, I picked up this patient the morning of her colonoscopy. She was in mild distress after a difficult night. She
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completed and signed by the mother; this included the authorization forms for the surgery. After registration, the patient and her mother were taken to the pre-op area for the preparation for the surgery. After completion of pre-op screening but prior to the patient entering the operating area, the mother stated that she was leaving campus to address a personal matter involving her other child while the patient was in surgery. Contact information was obtained from the mother prior to her leaving the hospital
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A1- Sentinel Event A 3 year old female patient was admitted to the Ambulatory Surgical Unit for an outpatient procedure to place tubes in her bilateral ears. The patient’s mother was advised that the procedure would take approximately 45 minutes and that the patient would remain in recovery for at least an hour. The patient’s mother advised that she needed to leave the facility to deal with an older child and gave Greta, the pre-op nurse, her cell phone number and asked that she be contacted
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