Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has reversed course on its plan to change the way it reimburses for anesthesia care payments, which critics said included not paying for...

As the year comes to an end and facilities take stock of their practices in 2024, it’s helpful to review concerns expressed by patient safety groups and consider the...

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...

Traditional thinking about pressure injuries (PIs) can lead to many providers only being on guard against them when caring for older patients in acute-care settings who have...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has announced the creation of a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary research agenda....

Here’s a free resource you’ll want to let your staff know about: The MH App is a simple yet valuable tool for handling a malignant hyperthermia (MH) crisis....

Deb Spratt, MPA, BSN, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, CHL, an independent perioperative consultant based in Rochester, N.Y., has more than 50 years of healthcare leadership...

Each year, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), shines the light on the demanding work preventionists do every day to keep...

If you haven’t had a sharps injury, you might be less inclined to speak up when you are directly handed a used sharp on the sterile field....

There are a lot of dedicated people working in hospital and surgery center operating rooms and one thing that’s certain among team members is there is never a question...

Pressure injuries (PIs) can range from a minor, localized area of non-blanchable erythema to full-thickness skin and tissue loss with exposed muscle, tendon, ligament...

Over the years, Outpatient Surgery Magazine has written frequently about drills to prepare perioperative and support staff for extremely rare but potentially deadly...

In May, Minnesota became the 18th U.S. state to pass a surgical smoke evacuation mandate into law....

There was a time, long, long ago, when ASC administrators felt like referees caught in the middle of a frustrating bout between productivity and safety....

Should anesthesia providers in areas where wildfires are burning change their practices to account for the possible effects of extremely poor air quality on their patients?

Part of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s (HUP) entry that won the OR Excellence Pain Management Award this year includes the placement of an alert...

It takes a team to ensure surgical instruments are clean, sterile and ready for surgery....

It’s not unusual for the turnover team at a surgery center to be compared to a NASCAR pit crew — a group of people working together quickly and efficiently to achieve the...

No sentinel events spurred the change, but 2021 audits by the nurses and surgical technicians at The Reading Hospital SurgiCenter at Spring Ridge revealed that...

Everyone is aligned with the idea that endoscopes need to be dried before they’re stored because germs thrive in their long, dark, narrow channels....