Special Editions Archive

Our annual training for malignant hyperthermia (MH) emergencies used to be expected and ordinary. We sat through classroom learning, watched an educational video and...

Help Total Knee Patients Recover in Comfort; Alternative therapies reduce their reliance on opioids to manage post-op pain.

For many patients undergoing minor outpatient procedures like cataract surgery, the needlestick that's used to administer IV sedation is often the most painful part of the...

There's arguably no more dangerous task in surgery during the coronavirus pandemic than intubating patients. Anesthesia professionals work inches from the airway,...

During the peak of the coronavirus outbreak, anesthesiologists used their exceptional skills to provide life-saving care under unimaginable pressure. That didn't surprise me...

Any reprocessing tech worth their scrub brush knows dirty instruments can't be properly sterilized. There's another instrument care risk hiding in plain sight, however,...

Prewarming Works Wonders; Early interventions to maintain normothermia reduce infection risks and increase patient satisfaction.

You recently took to social media to host a Q&A about the coronavirus. What surprised you most about the response?...

The sterile processing staff at Winchester (Va.) Medical Center reprocesses trays of instruments sent to them from 15 ORs. That's a lot to manage, so perhaps it's no surprise...

From the HIV crisis of the 1980s to the H1N1 pandemic of 2009 to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, Maureen Spencer, MEd, RN, CIC, FAPIC, has seen a lot during her more than...