Get the upper hand on orthopedic pain. 5 strategies to manage post-surgical pain in your ortho patients.

Power tool preferences. Keep these factors in mind when equipping your surgeons.

Positioned for progress. Tables and attachments are making procedures safer and more efficient.

Shooter opens fire at Philadelphia-area hospital. One person reported dead, two injured in violent attack.

Plastic surgeon faces malpractice allegations. For a Kentucky patient, an SSI wasn't the only post-op complication.

Nurse who wears hearing aids alleges job discrimination. Was hospital's treatment of hearing-impaired RN who complained of loud OR music discrimination or discipline?

New MH antidote can be prepared by one person in one minute. Ryanodex approved by FDA, will hit market soon.

Orthopedic surgeon from Indiana plotted to kill ex-wife. Police intervened in the nick of time to stop the murderous scheme.

Medicare's colonoscopy loophole could cost your patients. Contact your federal lawmakers to support a co-pay fix.

Hospital accused of medicare fraud will repay $750K. Settlement announced one day after charges filed.

Doc threatens physician's assistant during open heart surgery: "I'm going to put you through the wall." She's now on workers' comp with post-traumatic stress disorder and collecting $2,400 per week.

Did negligence let RN steal patients' pain meds? Class action suit says hospital should have prevented it.

Hospitals across the country vary substantially in their use of laparoscopy. Despite lower complication rates, study finds that some hospitals aren't performing minimally invasive surgery as often as they could.

"Insensitive" post costs Nurse her job. Photo shows trauma room where man hit by train was treated.

CMS proposes modest reimbursement raises for ASCs and HOPDs. For 2015, a 1.2% Raise for ASCs and a 2.1% Bump for HOPDs

Healthcare reform's elective surgery effects. More insured patients equals greater surgical demand, say researchers.

Anesthesia hand hygiene compliance is least when needed most. Providers wash hands less often during induction and emergence.

Tainted lot of Marcaine recalled by Hospira. Customer noticed particulate in the solution.

How we added emergency ortho care. Putting the pieces together to provide fracture care at our ASC.

Letters & E-mails: Don't text and operate. Pain-free surgery. Evidence-based practice. The "Karwoski Calculator."