Ideas That Work: Cover Panels Guard Door; Do Not Enter: UV Room Disinfection in Process

10 Tips for Safer Electrosurgery; Use these guidelines to keep both patients and staff safe.

There's That Cataract Van Again; Does outsourcing cataracts make sense for your facility?

Anesthesia Alert: 8 Little-Known Facts About Ketamine; Anesthetic and analgesic properties that make Special K special.

Employee Safety: An Exhaustive 3-year Quest for 12 Smoke-Free ORs; Northwest Hospital is the first hospital in Maryland to be completely smoke-free.

Anesthesia Alert: Cancellations Aren't Always Anesthesia's Fault; When a case is postponed, there's often plenty of blame to go around.

Shopping for a Compounding Pharmacy: Ask these 5 key questions to find the right drug supplier.

Thinking of Buying... Whole-Room Disinfection Systems; Your options for attacking bacteria that survive manual cleaning.

Legal Update: Dueling ASC Ownership Models; Can traditional ASC management companies compete with today's PPMs?

Have You Tried EMRs Lately?; Going paperless isn't as painful as you might think. No, really.

Infection Prevention: Are You Opening the Door to SSIs? Simple steps to reduce OR foot traffic - a preventable infection risk.

Is That Scope Clean? Verify It; Now you can confirm that reprocessed scopes have no residual contamination or damage that could harbor future microbes.

2018 Cataract Survey: What's Hot and What's Not; Readers weigh in on new eye surgery technology, new drugs, new procedures and more.

Behind Closed Doors: Amusing Musings; Questions answered and answers questioned about life in the OR.

Map Out Surgery With a 3D Organ Reconstruction; A patient created a life-sized model of his diseased colon for his surgeon to see.

The Queen of Hernia Repairs; I specialize in treating patients with hernia-related complications.

Ideas That Work: Laundry Duty; Tips for Laundering Your Own Linens

Ideas That Work: Sight, Sound, + Speech; Let Seniors Wear Their Hearing Aids and Glasses to the OR

Ideas That Work: OR Construction; Welcome to Cardboard City

Ideas That Work: Turnover; Don't Clean Until the Patient Leaves the Room