427 - The Surgical Need - 50 Years of Surgical Technology

C E E X A M Earn CE Credits at Home You will be awarded continuing educa- tion (CE) credits toward your recertifica- tion after reading the designated arti- cle and completing the test with a score of 70% or better. If you do not pass the test, it will be returned along with your payment. Send the original answer sheet from the journal and make a copy for your records. If possible use a credit card (debit or credit) for payment. It is a faster option for processing of credits and offers more flexibility for correct payment. When submitting multiple tests, you do not need to submit a separate check for each journal test. You may submit multiple journal tests with one check or money order. Members this test is also available online at www.ast.org . No stamps or checks and it posts to your record automatically! Members: $6 per credit (per credit not per test) Nonmembers: $10 per credit (per credit not per test plus the $400 nonmember fee per submission) After your credits are processed, AST will send you a letter acknowledging the number of credits that were accepted. Members can also check your CE credit status online with your login information at www.ast.org . 3 WAYS TO SUBMIT YOUR CE CREDITS Mail to: AST, Member Services, 6 West Dry Creek Circle Ste 200, Littleton, CO 80120-8031 Fax CE credits to: 303-694-9169 E-mail scanned CE credits in PDF format to: [email protected] For questions please contact Member Services - [email protected] or 800-637-7433, option 3. Business hours: Mon-Fri, 8:00a.m. - 4:30 p.m., MT was next. For a select few, it was surgery ala telecommunication. In 2001, the first telecommunicated laparoscopic surgery between patient and surgeon (New York to France) was performed, and in 2015, the world’s first successful face transplant was performed as more than 100 people worked for 26 hours to give the patient a true medical miracle. 5 More recently a focus in the field has been on 3D imaging, printing and recreating the anatomy of those that need it. How can it be imple- mented with the computer more into the day-to-day practice, reduce surgical site infections and increase patient outcomes? Augmented real- ity (AR) also has the potential to be the new normal allowing surgeons to detail the surgeries in ways that was never possible before with com- puter-based simulations. (JAMA) While it’s still in the process of evalu- ation, it’s possible that AR and VR (virtual reality) will not only make surgery safer, but allow for quicker turnover time and less recovery time for the patients. 4 Surgeon Atul Gawande 2 once wrote, “Prognostication is a hazardous enterprise. But if the past quarter century has brought minimally invasive procedures, the next may bring the elimination of invasion.” The role of surgical technologist began as a hope for survival, fraught from war to handle the stressors of OR life. Many of the advancements in preservation, blood management and trauma began much the same way. If it weren’t for war, the practice of saving an artery, a nerve or an extremity all together may not be what it is today. R E F E R E N C E S 1. Association of Surgical Technologists. www.ast.org/AboutUs/About_AST/ 2. Gawande,Atul. Two Hundred Years of Surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. www. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmra1202392. 3. History of the Operating Room.Optimus Integrated Surgical Environment.www.optimu- sise.com/historical/history-of-the-operating-room/ 4. Murthi, S; Varshney,A. HowAugmented RealityWill Make Surgery Safer. Harvard Busi- ness Review. March 2018.Accessed June 2019. https://hbr.org/2018/03/how-augmented- reality-will-make-surgery-safer 5. Weller, Chris. The Evolution of Surgery over the Last 100 Years Is Horrifying and Astounding. Business Insider. June 2016. www.businessinsider.com/how-surgery-has- evolved-over-the-last-100-years-2016-6#but-the-progress-also-transcended-human- surgeries-in-1996-bonah-an-18-month-old-rare-white-tiger-underwent-an-operation- to-correct-a-dislocated-kneecap-bonah-recovered-with-flying-colors-23. 6. Whitlock, Jennifer. The History of Surgery: A Timeline of Medicine. Verywell Health. August 2018. www.verywellhealth.com/the-history-of-surgery-timeline-3157332 7. Surgical Technologist.Wikipedia.April 2019. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_technolo- gist | The Surgical Technologist | JULY 2019 304