George Dugan, CRNA, RN, an anesthesia provider for Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, is no stranger to pain. His patients frequently suffer for months...

In the world of hand and wrist surgery, the Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) technique has revolutionized both pain management and the patient...

Joint replacement surgery continues to trend toward younger and younger patients who are eager to resume their active lifestyles post-procedure...

If you’re serious about superior patient satisfaction scores, then you need to be laser-focused on superior pain management....

To stay competitive over time, it helps if the ASC you build today can grow and change to fit the evolving needs of patients and surgical teams years down the road....

I’ve been writing for Outpatient Surgery Magazine for several years about everything from 4K monitors to steep Trendelenburg (as you can see from the photo, I went full...

Multimodal pain management is one of those ubiquitous terms that is used so often that it’s easy for providers to lose sight of exactly what it means....

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways have been around for 20 years and are fine-tuned all the time....

Between regional anesthesia, multimodal medication regimens and ERAS pathways executed with military-like precision, postoperative pain management is as efficient...

Postoperative pain is a common symptom after inguinal hernia repair, with patients still reporting pain even after being discharged home....

With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) removing total shoulder replacements from the inpatient-only list in 2024...

Technology lends itself to a future-centric mindset. In a world where innovation occurs so rapidly, it’s natural to obsess over the game-changing products...

Thomas Durick, MD, had a puzzle on his hands. Fortunately, the answer could be found in his pocket....

In the public consciousness, postoperative recoveries are so frequently associated with opioid misuse that TV dramatizations and documentaries about it litter the streaming...

Early in my career, I was assigned to a patient scheduled for surgery who was supposed to be under the care of an anesthesiologist, only to be later informed that...

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is the most underrated postoperative complication. It rarely gets the attention it deserves, and it’s our patients who suffer...

Anesthesia is in the middle of a major transition period. Increasingly, we’re seeing a shift away from the low-value/high-cost or ratio-based TEFRA models and a movement...

No surgeon wants to face a postoperative complication. But the reality is that complications, such as chronic postoperative pain, happen to patients even when...

The ambulatory surgical center environment is a busy one with many caseloads being handled by an expert team of healthcare professionals....

Talk about a strong endorsement: John Berdahl, MD, an ophthalmologist at Vance Thompson Vision in Sioux Falls, S.D., counts his mother and father as patients...