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Welcome to A Day in the Life of an Administrator, our new online column, where we sat down with Carson McCafferty, MSN, RN, CNOR, CNAMB, CSRN...

Airway management is one of the most important skills any anesthesia provider should master for one very good reason: Complications from difficult airways and poor management of those airways, though rare, can be life-threatening....

The best way to mitigate risk is to catch it before it happens. That’s the whole idea behind standardizing a surgical checklist — providing constant confirmation to safely ensure the patient’s care....

Patient and staff safety are obvious core values of every surgical organization. Yet problems in this realm are ever-present, and less-than-stellar...

Finding an easy-to-implement, cost-effective and widely accepted patient-approved infection prevention protocol to help prevent surgical site infections...

International Infection Prevention Week (IIPW) begins Oct.19 and runs through Oct. 25. Its organizer, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)...

The OR tools that make procedures safe in a patient’s surgical journey are often the unsung heroes of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) across the nation. Amneal’s...

Outsiders picture the operating room as a quiet space where healthcare professionals move about in perfect synchronization. It’s obvious that these people have never spent...