Periop Pulse 
Do you know a leader at any level of perioperative services that you believe is one of the finest in the industry? Do they go above and beyond in the interest of patients, staff and their facility or organization? We encourage you to tell us about them by nominating them…
Allina Health Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s Richard M. Schulze Surgical and Critical Care Center is projected to open in August. Construction, development, and engineering services company Mortenson provides some details about what lies within, stating that the new facility will “modernize surgical and critical care services, replacing outdated spaces and positioning…
Pediatric surgeon Thom E. Lobe, MD, FACS, of University of Illinois at Chicago has published a new technical report on Cureus that examines the use of a trusted AI-driven parent-baby companion app as a perioperative support tool. Noting that families of pediatric surgical patients spend limited time with their child’s…
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to enter into a strategic partnership to join Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health. Erlanger stated the proposed partnership with its fellow nonprofit health system would position it for “long-term sustainability, growth, innovation and success.” The proposed partnership would…
New anesthesiologists are likely to be much more aware of the larger picture of perioperative care moving forward. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) announced that “perioperative medicine” will be added as a new clinical topic within the subspecialty section to the Content Outline…
The University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Clinton in St. Johns has received the go-ahead from its Board of Regents to build a new 22,000-square-foot ambulatory clinic center, add 19,000 square feet of new hospital space and perform a major hospital renovation. The health system called the $62 million project a “response…
The CDC has published prevalence survey results in the New England Journal of Medicine that find that healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevalence in U.S. hospitals was lower in 2023 than in 2015. Similar surveys of U.S. hospitals showed that one of 25 patients had an HAI in 2011, which lowered to one…
Anxious surgical patients often request to listen their favorite music in the perioperative suite, especially before anesthesia induction and during transport. According to a new study written by Michael Egbujionuma, RN, APRN, of Kaiser Permanente, the fulfillment of these requests can go beyond simple in-the-moment “patient comfort” to “represent an…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an alert about four vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint, the widely-used cloud-based collaboration and document management platform included with Microsoft 365, that are being exploited by cyber threat actors to “establish remote code execution and perform other actions to deploy malware,” according…
A new retrospective cohort study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds that “older adults who undergo high-risk emergency general surgery (EGS) spend significantly fewer days living independently at home after surgery than those undergoing lower-risk procedures,” states ACS. The researchers note that EGS in older adults…
