As drug shortages continue to impact healthcare facilities across the country, global accreditation organization QUAD A offers helpful suggestions about what to do if...

When staff education gets stale or boring, engagement falters and compliance often declines....

Two perioperative nurses noted stress and anxiety among many patients who were about to undergo local anesthesia cases at the surgery center at Penn Presbyterian...

Two anesthesiologists are on duty every day at Orthopaedic Associates of Michigan (OAM) Surgery Center at MidTowne in Grand Rapids....

For 15 years, cardiovascular procedures have been performed in outpatient settings such as office-based labs (OBLs) and ASCs, starting with peripheral vascular...

There has been an enormous amount of media attention and general buzz surrounding the new glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1) medications semaglutide...

Surgical items are left in patients more frequently than you might think....

The status quo can be comforting and reassuring, but it also can choke innovation, progress and growth. In the ASC world, perhaps its most seductive example is paper...

The potential and appeal of robotic platforms has always been easily understood: Surgeons gain clearer fields of view (in three-dimensions) on devices that are...

We recently spoke with two experts: An administrator of an ambulatory surgery center that contracted with a third-party, offsite sterile processing facility after...

Most cataract patients suffer the condition in both eyes. So why not perform cataract surgery on both eyes on the same day? Well, for many surgeons and facilities...

The first time Elizabeth “Betsy” Dovec, MD, FACS, FASMBS, DBOM, performed a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in an ambulatory surgery center setting...

It takes a concerted effort to not only recognize the need for change in your workplace culture, but also to do something about it....

Spring is the season for conferences and live events, which can go a very long way toward revitalizing your outlook....

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that its ongoing investigation of plastic syringes for potential failures has found that the use of...

People often rise to leadership positions due to the excellent quality of their work, but then may have a tough time letting go of that work in their new position....

Technicians in sterile processing departments (SPDs) at surgical facilities across the country are told to follow manufacturers’ instructions for use (IFUs) while cleaning...

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...

It wasn’t until the caregiver team was debriefing that Connie Schwendeman, MSN, RN, CPAN, NPD-BC, began to relax. Ms. Schwendeman, a corporate learning consultant...