An Inside Look at Life in the Operating Room
Are you passionate about helping people? If so, a career in the medical field might be for you. The healthcare industry is rapidly growing compared to other sectors. As a medical practitioner, you may be subject to work in the...
Advocating for Safer Surgery: Four Principles
With over 300 million people worldwide going under the knife every year, safer surgery is a universal healthcare priority. New studies and advances in medical science are reducing risk all the time — but the key to increasing patient safety…
SpecialtyCare’s COVID-19 and ECMO Research Selected for the Opening...
SpecialtyCare is honored to share that our abstract entitled: “Experience with 46 patients with COVID-19 and Severe Pulmonary Compromise treated with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation,” has been selected for the opening presentation of the first scientific session at The Southern Thoracic…
How to Increase Satisfaction and Become the Provider of Choice
How can we as surgical neurophysiologists improve a patient’s experience and surgeon satisfaction? At SpecialtyCare, it is our responsibility to meet and interview the patient prior to surgery. We spend time reviewing information about the patient’s history, explain what neuromonitoring…
Q&A with Andrew Goldstein, Manager of Biomedical Engineering at...
The biomed technicians of SpecialtyCare are maintaining their usual high standards, despite the challenges involved in the COVID-19 outbreak. Trained in equipment purchasing, installation, and maintenance, as well as disaster preparedness, both the perfusion techs and the intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM)…
Benefits of Joining the SpecialtyCare Team
Becoming a medical professional is an expensive endeavor. You’ve worked hard to get where you are today, and at SpecialtyCare, we believe you should be rewarded for your pursuit of continued education. That’s why we offer student loan assistance and…
Sterile Processing Problems: HAI & SSI Rates Caused by Dirty Instruments
We all know that disease can be transmitted in many ways in a hospital, but some are much more preventable than others. What role does inadequate sterile processing play in the rates of Hospital-Associated Infections (HAIs) and Surgical Site Infections…
Dr. Suken Shah on How IONM Makes Surgery Safer
Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) is a surgical innovation that monitors the electrical potential of nerves, allowing surgeons to avoid nerve injury or morbidity during certain procedures. Research shows it is especially useful during complex operations involving cerebral tumors, peripheral nerves, the…
Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Perfusion and ECMO…What’s the Difference?
For people who aren’t already in the healthcare field, it can be mighty confusing to decipher all of these terms and procedures. If one were to Google “cardiopulmonary bypass” right now, the terms “perfusion” and “ECMO” would also pop up…