The AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo will be held April 6-10, 2019 in Nashville, TN. This year's focus is Harmonized Care: the Key to Safety. It is the largest Gathering of Perioperative Professionals in the World with over 5,600 executives, directors,...
Preventing Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries in 2026: Perioperative Strategies to Avoid CMS Never Events Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPIs) remain a costly and preventable harm. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) still classifies Stage...
One of the biggest responsibilities of the operating room (OR) team is to ensure patient safety. There are many facets to patient safety in the OR. Safe patient positioning is a critical facet since the patient is unable to tell you if they are in pain or...
Amos Schonrock, MAN, RN, ST, PHN, CSSM, CNAMB, CNOR, NE-BCPerioperative Practice and Safety SpecialistOne of the highly common surgical positions is supine. This approach involves the surgical team’s watchful eyes to oversee a patient that will lie on their back with...
Some surgical procedures require extreme positioning to ensure that the targeted surgical area is accessible to the surgeon and the surgical team. Extreme positioning requires extreme positioning devices, manufactured to meet the need for surgical access....
Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment “Little is known about pressure ulcer prevention practice among pediatric patients,” Razmus and Bergquist-Beriger lamented just two years ago in Wound Management & Prevention. For one thing, the authors explained, risk factors for...
Patients undergoing surgery, even minimally invasive surgeries, are at increased risk for injury caused by compression or stretching during surgical positioning. An important step to protect patients is right sizing the positioning device based on the patient.“While...
Image Credit: WoundCare Advantage Pressure injuries increase morbidity and mortality rates and about 60,000 patient deaths per year are a direct result of pressure injuries. The costs for U.S. hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) in the United States may...
Pressure Redistribution and Stability in the Anterior approach to total Hip Replacement The Action® Orthopedic Hip Positioner for Anterior Total Hip Replacement (THR) is a specialized surgical aid designed to stabilize the pelvis and improve surgical site exposure....
Pressure Injury Prevention Strategies: Using Towels or Sheets Over Patient Positioners In this blog we discuss the “hot topic” of using towels, or sheets in between the patient positioners and the patient. Does using towels or sheets over polymer increase the...
