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JULY
2024
Volume 40
Number 7
Education and information for OR decision makers
TECHNOLOGY
IN THIS ISSUE
Guest Editorial: Are you a
perioperative nurse or
an OR nurse? ...............................3
INDUSTRY BEATS
Scaling standards from
sterile processing department
to clinic .......................................6
State of the huddle:
The barriers to and benefits of
preop meetings ............................7
Reader's choice: OR am top
read stories .................................9
SPECIALTY STORIES
Rural hospitals contend with
challenging opportunities ............21
How competency assessment
could extend beyond licensing .....29
BY BRITA BELLI
The rise of AI in radiology-and what
the future holds
hen it comes to the adoption
of artificial intelligence (AI) in
medicine, radiology is leading
the charge. As of May 13, 2024,
the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) had approved nearly 900 AI- and
machine learning (ML)-enabled devices,
and the vast majority of them are in
radiology. One example is startup Envisionit
Deep AI's Radify chest X-ray
software, which enables doctors to diagnose
the dangerous lung conditions
pneumothorax and pleural effusion in
emergency rooms and intensive care
units in just 3 seconds on average. AnW
LEADERSHIP
BY
CYNTHIA SAVER
Ambulatory endoscopy management
strategies keep patients, finances healthy
IMPORTANT
ANNOUCEMENT
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G
astrointestinal (GI) endoscopy
is one of the most common procedures
in the US. Performed
more than 17.1 million times per year
in inpatient and outpatient hospital settings
as well as ambulatory surgery centers
(ASCs), GI procedures account for
68% of all endoscopies, according to a
May 2022 article in Digestive Diseases
and Sciences. Among Medicare-certified,
single-specialty ASCs, endoscopy
is the most common focus, and 37% of
certified multi-specialty facilities have
an endoscopy service line.
Lauri Santy, MSN, BS, RN, characterizes
the endoscopy center environment
as one of " organized chaos. " As nurse
manager of the endoscopy
and pain center at
Saint Francis Hospital
and Medical Center in
Hartford, Connecticut,
Santy oversaw more
than 5,000 outpatient
procedures and more
than 800 inpatient proother
is the TumorSight
digital platform from
SimBioSys. This system
uses standard imaging
from a breast cancer
patient to create a 3D
model of the tumor, providing
additional insights
on volume, distance to
anatomical features, and more for guiding
treatment.
the balance between direct patient care
and efficiency, " says Karen Sutton, MD,
Continued on page 12
Karen Sutton,
MD
" Medicine is all about trying to find
Lauri Santy,
MSN, BS, RN
cedures in 2023. With five GI suites,
one pulmonary suite, and one pain/
minor surgical procedure room to consider,
managing the center's endoscopy
services is an inherently complex
and collaborative endeavor. " You have
to be able to bounce and spin, " she
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