The Montana Senior Olympics was held in Missoula, Montana in September 2021. Senior means anyone over the age of 50. We may smirk at 50 being a “senior”, but the reality is if we don’t continue to keep our bodies conditioned for the activities we wish to pursue from the ages of 30 or 40,…
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What does it look like inside the sterile surgical suite?
Left: Proper transition of the surgical team from non-sterile to the sterile surgical suite needs to be seamless. A non-sterile team member is tying the surgeon’s sterile gown (sterile zone in the front) while the Certified Surgical Technologist (CST), already dressed in the sterile gown, provides sterile gloves to the surgeon. The sterile surgical team…
Why can patients go home soon after outpatient surgery?
Patients are going home sooner after outpatient surgery to recover in the comfort of their own homes, this includes joint replacement surgery and spine surgery. There is a combination of reasons why this is possible: 1. The main reason is due to a multimodal pain management approach which may include: a regional anesthetic nerve block…