Here are 10 hospital operating room expansions that were announced or completed in the past month, beginning with the most recent. 1. Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas completed a new ...

If you've ever wondered about what goes on in the operating room — whether you've been a patient or not — then your curiosity is about to be satiated. Shannon Fagan / Getty Images Recently, I spoke ...

Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine students developed a backpack-sized mobile surgical kit that is designed for minor ...

Whether it's an impoverished nation, a battlefield or a disaster site, there are places where doctors have to perform surgery outside of a sterile operating room. That's where the SurgiField system ...

"You know how to scrub, right?" The short story is no, I did not yet know how to scrub. As a premedical student, the operating room is different from anywhere else I have been. Just as with any new ...

The operating room (OR) can be a mysterious place. It has long been a relatively hidden medical environment, where the only people who know what happens in it are the on-duty medics. However, new ...

Why are operating rooms (ORs) so cold, and why is that so annoying to anesthesiologists? In the video above, Max Feinstein, MD, explains why ORs are cold, and what measures are taken to protect ...