Sure, a successful surgery in the patient’s eyes means waking up and knowing they will soon have their mobility and, essentially, their quality of life back....

There was a time when all surgical power tools had to be handwashed (or, in sterile processing parlance, manually cleaned) because the devices weren’t...

We perform roughly 40 procedures a day at our busy orthopedic surgery center, and we expect every patient to leave the operating room without a pressure injury....

In the outpatient joint replacement world, hips and knees are still king....

Before Christopher Miller, MD, an orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and New England Baptist Hospital in Boston...

Orthopedic patients are often surprised that their bones are repaired with screws, drill bits, saws and other tools that look very much like what they have...

Custom implants have emerged as a valuable tool in both knee and hip revision surgery, offering potential benefits to both patients and surgeons....

Whether you’re simply looking to add smaller cases like hand surgeries or aiming for a higher stakes total joints program, the orthopedics industry...

Success in the rapidly growing endoscopic spine surgery (ESS) space often comes down to striking a delicate balance between two sometimes disparate factors...

The day before I spoke with Peter Kim, MD, an orthopedic hand surgery specialist in the Boston area, he performed a unilateral endoscopic carpal tunnel release on a friend and colleague...

There are plenty of misconceptions about what robotic surgical systems can do for orthopedic surgeons and the patients on whom they operate....

If you give a patient the choice between a one-and-a-half-centimeter incision on the crease in their wrist with a speedy recovery prognosis or a four-to-five...

Innovation in instrumentation is something I’m passionate about because advances in the tools we use can help me, as an academic orthopedic surgeon...

Demand for outpatient orthopedics procedures continues to surge, with no end in sight. The question for surgical leaders and those looking to...

Necessity is the mother of invention, which is something anesthesiologist Brian Kashin, MD, FRCPC, and his colleagues experienced firsthand while...

Though revision is sometimes seen as a partner to traditional knee arthroplasty, the two are very different....

A patient experiences numbness, tingling or pain in their hand, and seeks answers on the cause from a provider. Chances are they’re suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome...

Multimodal pain management has a domino effect on surgical outcomes: By using this approach, facilities reduce opioid use, which often translates into...

Between aging Baby Boomers’ growing needs and a strong same-day preference among patients and insurers, the demand for outpatient orthopedic procedures like total knees and...

If you want to go beyond the standard meet- and-greet when you add a new surgeon to your facility, consider doing something like UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center did.....