Ideas that work: housekeeping. No locker left behind.

Master of the difficult airway. New devices are making difficult cases safer — and opening the doors to more challenging patients.

Strategies to prevent retained objects. What you can do to ensure that nothing's left behind.

The new world of drug compounding. New regulations have improved safety, but some key distinctions are both subtle and important.

Reduce the risk of pressure ulcers. Skin injuries can occur without preventative measures in place.

Ideas that work: collections. Ensure patient payments every time.

5 Ways to make your ORs safe and comfortable. Keep your surgical teams happy and healthy with these ergonomic products.

No more dirty duodenoscopes. Recent superbug outbreaks have hammered home the importance of proper manual cleaning.

Ideas that work: hand-eye coordination. Operation board game sharpens lap-assisting skills.

Ideas that work: innovative ideas. Get their attention for wrong-site prevention.

Thinking of buying ... smoke evacuators. Today's innovative devices evacuate surgical smoke right at the source.

Surgery center's coat drive an overwhelming success. Family violence shelter benefits from community's generosity.

Ideas that work: secure endotracheal tubes with dental floss. Tie dental floss around a tooth.

Innovations in surgical imaging. National experts discuss the eye-popping images on display in today's ORs and what surgery might look like in the near future.

Coding & billing: Cuts to 2016 colonoscopy rates run deep. The physician work values for the colonoscopy family are cut up to 17%.

Ideas that work: ergonomics. Elevate your kick bucket.

Staffing: A spreadsheet that spits out a staffing budget. It gives you an hours-per-case analysis and sets realistic staffing levels.

Death of anesthesiologist found along downtown Minneapolis freeway ruled an accident. Dr. Christopher Robert, apparently fell on his walk home from a workplace Christmas party, died of a blunt force head injury.

Mix-up at hospital costs woman her breast. Tissue samples taken from a woman in her 30s were confused with those of an older woman.

FDA reclassifies vaginal mesh as high-risk device and orders manufacturers to address safety concerns. The move is the latest effort to improve the safety of transvaginal pelvic organ prolapse procedures.