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There were 88 unintended retained surgical item (RSI) events reported to The Joint Commission (TJC) in 2022, continuing a downward trend established in 2019...

Just how many instruments on the trays in your ORs and procedure rooms are actually necessary?

The shared governance team at Virtua Health in Voorhees, N.J., identified a big opportunity to improve efficiency and reduce costs by streamlining surgical...

Organic matter is discovered on critical, regularly used instruments. Do you: a.) Ask sterile processing what happened, or b.) Reach out to your surgical techs...

Patient warming is a patient safety and patient satisfaction must for top-performing outpatient facilities....

How do well-meaning sterile processing professionals make sense of and track the myriad complex steps in a typical endoscope manufacturer’s IFUs?

Warming every patient no matter the duration of the surgery is the best course of action for facilities, says J.D. Buchert, MSN, M.Ed., MS, RN, workforce safety manager...

When Ohio Gastroenterology Group, a Columbus-based physician-owned practice with five endoscopy centers, was drowning in tens of thousands of monthly phone calls...

If your reprocessing techs handle a high volume of complex instrumentation day in and day out, it’s imperative that they take every measure possible to...

When Ryan Reynolds, star of the popular Deadpool movies and perennial rom-com leading man, agreed to have his first colonoscopy filmed for public release...

Want a surefire way to tarnish a superior surgical outcome from the patient’s perspective? Leave them with a lasting memory of the...

A decade ago, Taylor Cera, MBA, chief operating officer at Youngstown (Ohio) Orthopaedic Associates and The Orthopaedic Surgery Center...

When surgeons and nurses with UNC REX Healthcare in Raleigh, N.C., expressed concerns about instrument quality, surgical service materials...

Demand for outpatient orthopedics procedures continues to surge, with no end in sight. The question for surgical leaders and those looking to...

Telling your sterile processing technicians to “just follow the manufacturers’ instructions for use (IFUs)” can often be about as helpful as...

The ambulatory surgery market continues to grow, despite economic and business challenges that may limit the growth but not stop it from happening in the coming year and beyond. In a recent...

As many surgical facilities continue to struggle with the perioperative staffing crisis, data that helps us to better quantify the scope of the issue is in short supply as well....

Retention of staff is an ongoing, intensifying problem for many outpatient surgery facilities. Recently, some administrators shared their ideas with Outpatient Surgery Magazine on how to...

With the healthcare industry in the throes of a nationwide staffing crisis, nurses and techs have more power than ever over where they hang their scrubs....

Ask any staff safety expert and they'll gladly tell you all about the many benefits of double-gloving due to its ability to prevent infection-exposing needlestick injuries....