A surgical technologist is a health professional who prepares an operating room (OR) before surgery. They’re a crucial part of a surgical care team, working alongside the surgeon, the surgeon’s ...

Inside Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center's second floor surgery suite, surgeons and medical teams are busy honing their critical-care skills. In one room, a retiree is getting a new nose. A few feet ...

The worry begins as soon as we schedule an elective surgery — whether joint replacement, hysterectomy, hernia repair, or any of the scores of procedures that account for the 15 million operations ...

As your surgery date gets closer, you might feel uneasy. But the more you know about what to expect, the less nervous you'll be. Take a few minutes to learn how the day will unfold. You'll usually be ...

Conclusions Seamless intervention in the operating room, combined with pain management significantly improves psychological state, sleep quality, pain relief, surgical efficiency, stress response, ...

OCEANSIDE — Far more attention has been paid to California’ssevere shortage of nurses than to a similar scarcity of surgicaltechnicians, but MiraCosta College recently added a trainingprogram for ...