6 Hot Trends in Medication Safety; Add these technologies to protect your patients and staff from drug-related harm.

The Ink Must Go Where the Knife Will Cut; There'll be less wrong-site surgery if your surgeons cut through their initials.

Almost Left Behind; Lessons learned from a final count that came up 2 sponges short.

Compounders are engineering safety features into their prefilled products.

Is your staff prepared to swing into action to save a patient's life?

3 non-invasive ways to easily track your patient's core body temperature before, during and after surgery.

Lawsuit: patient suffered emotional distress listening to surgeon talk while he operated on her. The doctor allegedly spooked the patient when he spoke about night sweats and blurred vision in Spanish as part of a language proficiency exam.

Safety: Inside our near-miss wrong-site surgery. Lessons learned from almost implanting the wrong IOL.

Take a closer look at ophthalmic compounded drugs. Here's what you can do to ensure the sterility, potency and purity of the outsourced injections you use in your facility.

4 keys to prevent patient falls. Keep your patients from taking a tumble.

Chicago hospital sues leapfrog for defamation over low patient safety grade.

Recall: Midazolam syringes in blister packs contain syringes of ondansetron. Fresenius Kabi USA is recalling a lot of mislabeled prefilled syringes that were distributed nationwide.

Study: Overlapping surgeries are safe for patients. A study of more 2,000 neurosurgery patients showed no major difference in post-op complications between overlapping and non-overlapping surgeries.

Anesthesia alert: Who's unsafe for outpatient surgery? Certain patients shouldn't get past your anesthesia gatekeepers.

3 fire prevention tips. Your OR team can minimize the chance of a surgical fire.

Safety: Quiet, Please: Noise distractions in the OR. Silence is golden during the critical stages of surgery.

Lawsuit over left-behind ligating clip can proceed. Surgeons allegedly left a ligating clip in a patient's bladder after robot-assisted prostate removal.

Study: "Frailty" a better predictor of complications than age in low-risk surgeries. Informed consent should deemphasize age, increase emphasis on frailty, say the authors.

CDC study: Doctors and nurses admit to reusing syringes for multiple patients at dangerously high rates. Researchers found that 12% of physicians and 3% of nurses reuse syringes in their workplace.

7 tips to prevent medication errors. Ensure the right dose of the right medication reaches the right patient.