Surgery
Saint Francis Hospital and Saint Francis Hospital at Broken Arrow offer a variety of inpatient and outpatient surgery services. From same-day ophthalmologic procedures, gall bladder extraction and hernia repair to critical inpatient procedures, trauma surgery and transplantation, the physicians and surgical staff of Saint Francis are among the finest around.
New technologies currently in use in the Saint Francis Hospital operating room (OR) are making both processes and surgeries run more smoothly and on schedule.
A new physician OR check in system is helping to streamline the process of getting rooms and patients ready for surgery. Surgeons alert surgery staff of their arrival at the hospital through an automated check in. The physician may go to one of six locations on campus, enter a designated code and the surgical staff is notified of his arrival.
With the enhanced planning capabilities this system provides, greater surgical efficiency has resulted. Approximately 85 percent of surgeries begin on schedule, well above the national average of 65 percent.
Another innovative technology at use in the Saint Francis Hospital OR is a system called SIDNE (pronounced Sidney). SIDNE is a voice-activated software technology that frees up the surgical staff to focus more on the patient and less on equipment.
Using the voice activated system, the surgeon wears a headset and speaks into it to control various settings. Voice commands can tell the computer to turn on and off, or the controls to move up or down, for example. This allows the nurses to spend more time focusing on the patient’s needs because the physicians can control so much with voice commands.
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