Medical Malpractice: How to avoid product liability lawsuits. Your facility may be on the hook for defective drugs and devices.

Cutting Remarks: Are we going overboard with patient safety? Sometimes you have to overrule overprotective staff members.

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The case for pre-packaged medications. Patient safety is just one of many reasons you should use pre-filled syringes.

Infection Prevention: Housekeepers are your SSI foot soldiers. A dedicated cleaning crew is the first line of defense against infections.

Puncture-resistant ORs. Protect your surgeons and staff from sharps injuries with safety-engineered devices.

Offer comfort to waiting friends and family members with this Idea That Works from Dallas, Texas.

Coding & Billing: When payers demand refunds and takebacks. Strategies to fight back and protect what's rightfully yours.

Make sure important information doesn't get lost with this Idea That Works from Corinth, Mississippi.

The sinking of Sedasys. What doomed the much-ballyhooed computerized sedation system to failure?

Where there's smoke ... If you smell charred flesh in the OR, you're probably inhaling invisible toxic gases, too.

Battling post-op pain without opioids. 5 multimodal approaches that work best when pain from surgery is at its worst.

Here is an Idea that Works from Hazelton, Pa for helping to ensure "never events" never happen.

Woman secretly records OR team talking about her while she's unconscious. Listen to the audio woman captured during her hernia surgery.

Calif. law would require oral surgeons to be more open about anesthesia risks. Parents say a separate anesthesia provider and monitoring equipment might have saved 6-year-old Caleb Sears.

How much more can EMRs do for you? If you're struggling to capitalize on the technology's promising potential, your colleagues might have the solutions you're looking for.

Customize your knee replacements. Implants that match a patient's joint alignment and orientation are better than off-the-shelf hardware.