Special Editions Archive

Burning platforms, coordinated care and SSI prevention. Q&A with Zeev Kain, MD, PhD, anesthesiologist and perioperative surgical home proponent.

Standardize your skin prep practices. Get patients, surgeons and staff on board with your pre-op bathing, hair-clipping and skin-antisepsis protocols.

The new standard in endoscope reprocessing. A new national guideline offers clear advice for proper high-level disinfection.

Take the bundled approach to infection control. Standardized protocols optimize efforts to prevent SSIs.

Is FDA's push to ban powdered gloves long overdue? Experts say severe health hazards have been well known for years.

Customize your knee replacements. Implants that match a patient's joint alignment and orientation are better than off-the-shelf hardware.

Putting surgeons in touch with minimally invasive surgery. Q&A with Allison Okamura, PhD, mechanical engineer and robotics researcher.

Colonoscopy upgrades worth considering. Imaging enhancements and endoscope advances aim to improve polyp detection rates.

The robot revolution has begun. Innovative new platforms could someday redefine minimally invasive surgery.

4K lights up the OR. Will dramatically sharper detail lead to safer surgeries and better outcomes?