If your facility has room in its capital equipment budget and can procure the services of physicians who can perform endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) procedures...

Q&A with Amrita Sethi, MD, MASGE, NYSGEF, founder and president of Women in Endoscopy (WIE), on the importance of women in the field....

I loved the text messages you sent out! They were so helpful — it felt like you knew exactly what I wasn’t sure about....

From out-of-date IFUs to inconsistent guideline usage to precleaning variables to poor training and lack of certification, plenty of issues can crop up to negatively...

Waste management is a crucial part of any high-volume GI practice. Your staff deserves a system that is safe, efficient, portable and one-hundred percent...

Infection prevention and sterile processing pros who visit GI centers continue to see the use of inadequate endoscope storage methods that can foster contamination...

As healthcare providers, we continuously push the boundaries of what we can safely do on an outpatient basis....

Growing up with two younger brothers and a little sister, I felt like my parents were practicing on me....

Both the ambulatory surgical center (ASC) and anesthesia services landscapes have been evolving rapidly....

May 11 was declared the end of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declaration, but facilities that report through the Healthcare Personnel Safety...

We perform roughly 40 procedures a day at our busy orthopedic surgery center, and we expect every patient to leave the operating room without a pressure injury....

A few weeks ago I flew out to Denver with one primary objective: to see Rocky Mountain National Park — come hell or high water....

Lots of thought and energy is expended deciding which cleaning products to use and how to train staff to properly apply them....

Do you often feel stumped when it comes to creating fun, memorable and effective training ideas for your staff? ...

Do you clam up when the surgeon asks you to pick some music during surgery? Or are you just tired of the same ’70s, ’80s and ’90s playlists you’ve heard hundreds of times? ...

WellSpan Apple Hill Surgical Center in York, Pa., houses 10 ORs and three endoscopy procedure rooms, in which an average of 1,250 surgical cases...

In the outpatient joint replacement world, hips and knees are still king....

Before Christopher Miller, MD, an orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and New England Baptist Hospital in Boston...

Ever investigated just how many of the instruments and entire instrument trays that arrive in your ORs and procedure rooms throughout each day are actually necessary? ...

Orthopedic patients are often surprised that their bones are repaired with screws, drill bits, saws and other tools that look very much like what they have...