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...

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...

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

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

Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia is a preventable complication that can have disastrous consequences. A patient whose temperature dips below 36 C will react to...

How did the coronavirus impact your facility? We planned to handle an overflow of non-infected ICU patients from other hospitals...

COVID-19 has completely changed the calculus of outpatient surgery. You want patients to spend as little time in your facility as possible — and likely, so do they. You must be...

Salmon Medical Innovation's DentaSafe Intubating Dental Guard is a single-use latex-free foam strip that provides a layer of protection between laryngoscope blades and...

As a clinical educator, I focus on three major components of airway management competency: knowledge, skill and attitude. We've added validation and verifications of...

For cataract patients who have an aversion to IV needles or who have chronic opioid issues, an MKO melt is a wonderful alternative. The sublingual sedation, which consists...

The following firsthand accounts are real, raw and at times disturbing. They pull back the curtain on the everyday experiences of minorities in surgery and spotlight how...

Patients with sacroiliitis often arrive at a physician's office at the end of the road. They're distraught and emotionally drained after suffering with lower back pain for...

Anxious patients waiting in pre-op bays don't want to see their surgeons wandering around looking for who they're going to be operating on next. To eliminate that...

Outpatient total joints currently account for about 3% of all joint replacements performed in the U.S. That percentage is projected to grow to 30% to 50% over the next...

Do you find your energy starting to lag as your stress rises? You might want to take a look at your diet. There's a direct correlation between what we ingest and how stressed...

When the American Cancer Society recommended colonoscopy screenings should start at age 45 instead of age 50 last May, you might have wondered how you were going to...

Orthopods are surgery's carpenters, cutting and drilling into bone as they stabilize loose structures, repair broken parts and replace aging joists, er joints. Like any master...

After gynecological procedures such as hysterectomies, surgeons place vaginal packing to stop excessive bleeding. But how are physicians and even patients to know that...

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, our health system shut down three facilities to protect them from the coronavirus. When those facilities reopened for elective...