The early recognition and prompt treatment of a malignant hyperthermia (MH) crisis is essential for a patient’s survival. Healthcare professionals everywhere are on a mission...

When we approached Santa Cruz (Calif.) Surgery Center CEO/Administrator Lisa Cooper about a video the ASC produced and posted on LinkedIn about postoperative pain...

Achieving optimal and timely recoveries for total joints patients isn’t easy....

For decades, patients heading into joint replacement surgery have heard their procedure should be a simple, no-frills affair, only to experience a much different...

Most patients know to expect some pain following surgery, as their own common sense tells them that an operation will hurt....

As a surgeon on the forefront of outpatient colectomies, Laila Rashidi, MD, FACS, FASCRS, assigns a high value to patient selection....

Prizes are a great way to reward pint-sized patients after procedures or appointments, but how you offer the prize is as important, if not more important, than what you...

An inadvertent hypothermic event during surgery can turn a routine procedure into a case with multiple complications....

Managing patients’ pain after their spine surgeries is critical, especially when those surgeries are performed in outpatient settings....

It’s one of the most undiscussed and unstudied phenomena in surgery, dating back to the very first operations on patients: the presence of insects in the OR and the...

Virtually every surgery center’s patient satisfaction scores take a dip or miss the target from time to time. What matters is how centers respond....

Joseph Rosenbaum, MD, clinical director of hand surgery at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J., is a longtime and enthusiastic practitioner of the Wide-Awake Local...

Studies show that up to 30% of the population may be colonized with Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in their nares and up to 5% of U.S. hospital patients are also...

As a well-known team physician for not one but two professional Chicago franchises — the Bulls and the White Sox — Adam Yanke, MD, PhD, sees his fair share of non-athlete...

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...

Tampa Surgery Center serves a large volume of patients who receive laser eye treatments, including YAG capsulotomy, superior and inferior selective laser...

JD Buchert, MSN, M.Ed., MS, RN, recalls a patient encounter that has stuck with him over the years, one of many cases that has helped shape his understanding of how...

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