To prevent the next patient from getting hooked on opioids, let’s first consider what helped cause the national epidemic to spiral out of control. It wasn’t surgeons passing...

Standardized Scripts for Every Surgery; Tailoring pill counts to procedure type will right-size your post-op opioid prescriptions.

One of our facility's surgeons is well known for sending patients home after surgery with 3 opioid pills. That's it. His patients are initially surprised and wonder if that will be...

You could make a legitimate argument that the CDC’s labeling of pain as “the fifth vital sign” in 2001 did more harm than good and directly contributed to the current opioid...

Nerve blocks are the most targeted form of analgesia available, arming your anesthesia providers with the ability to direct local anesthetics to specific areas of the body to...

Why does the opioid epidemic hit home for you? Ilan Kirsh, my best friend from childhood, died on the stoop of my apartment in...

Who Has Access to Your Medications? Reduce diversion risks with these drug security and disposal solutions.

Boost Your Adenoma Detection Rate; ADR is the gold standard in colonoscopy quality. Do you measure up?

Ideas That Work: Cap and Gown; Caps Put Smiles on Kids' Faces

Ideas That Work: Seeing Is Believing; Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Warnings

Master of the Airway; Are your providers comfortable with an airway device in their hands?

Salary Survey: Your annual paycheck checkup

Ideas That Work: Staff-Made Reference Videos; An In-house Library Of How-to Instruction

Ideas That Work: Facility Feud; Game-show Themed Events Help Safety Training Stick

Safety: Simulate Emergencies in Bedside Mock Drills; Let staff practice their response to urgent situations before they occur

5 Tips for Faster Turnover Times; Flipping ORs between cases demands tight teamwork and proper planning

Infection Prevention: 4 Ways to Wipe Away Surgical Site Infections; Follow this practical advice to ward off the threat of SSIs at your facility

Nasal Antisepsis Done Right; 4 tips to stop staph where it lurks

Thinking of Buying... Mini C-arms; Here's what to look for in a portable fluoroscopic system.

Anesthesia Alert: Believe in the Power of Hypnosis; Sedating patients with guided imagery and local anesthetics