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Wrapping instruments in blue wrap might not be the best choice when your sterile processing department is responsible for turning around a high-volume of tools...

Spine surgeries used to require a six-inch incision and a saber saw to cut through muscles. Patients lost a lot of blood and managing their post-op pain required...

Colonoscopy is the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance, but folds and blind spots within the colon can harbor precancerous polyps that may be...

The technologies and solutions both available and in development for techs in today's sterile processing departments (SPDs) are becoming smarter, faster and more advanced...

Nothing is more devastating than a preventable surgical site infection (SSI) complicating an otherwise perfectly executed procedure, which is why effective management...

Healthcare Outcomes Performance (HOPCo), the largest orthopedic value-based care organization in the U.S. and a provider of musculoskeletal practice and clinical...

Total joint replacement service lines are migrating to outpatient settings, and the ways in which the ASCs that house them are laid out, staffed and outfitted are often unique....

Specimen handling is a complex process complete with many steps that healthcare providers must follow to the letter to ensure everything goes smoothly and safely....

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses estimates that a sharps injury occurs during as many as 15% of surgeries. It also found that about 64% of these injuries...

OSHA estimates 5.6 million healthcare workers and related occupations are at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens — including HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C...

It's not your imagination. More and more procedures continue to move from hospitals to ASCs. A recent whitepaper says that, despite some backtracking from CMS, the trend...

There's no reason for any of your hardworking nurses to suffer a strain injury from transferring a patient from pre-op to the OR table or from the OR to PACU — especially with...

With the danger of criminal prosecution hanging over their heads, how many frontline nurses — many of whom are already burnt out from the harrowing experiences...

Wrong-site, wrong-side and wrong-patient surgeries are never acceptable, even on an OR's busiest day. Follow these five basic steps to avoid these devastating surgical errors....

When post-op infections occur at University of Wisconsin Health in Madison, a Strike Team assembles to drill down to their root causes and then takes immediate action...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has updated its guideline for preventing unintentionally retained surgical items (RSIs) with a recommendation...

A study of nearly two million joint arthroscopies performed over eight years found no significant difference in overall complication rates among inpatient and outpatient...

Knee replacement patients younger than age 60 have similar joint pain and disability as their older counterparts, but also possess more risk factors for surgical...

Telehealth and virtual meetings were normalized out of necessity during the pandemic. Now researchers are exploring the possibility of tapping into video conferencing...

Robotic-assisted joint replacement surgery continues to gain momentum, even though there isn’t much data that shows the technology leads to better joint function....