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

Product News; Great Ideas for your OR

Ideas That Work: 12-Step Process; Countdown to Room Setup

Behind Closed Doors; My 2020 New Year's Resolutions

Pressure Ulcers: Surgery's Sore Subject; Your OR team can prevent pressure injuries by following these 5 guidelines.

Surgical Video Q&A; It might soon be time to make the jump from 4K to 8K monitors.

Ideas That Work: Make It Mandatory; Double (Glove) Or Nothing

Editor's Page; Those Dreaded Performance Reviews

Sharpen Your Knowledge of Sharps Safety; 6 surprising facts about sharps injury prevention

Business Advisor: Unlock Hidden Savings in Central Sterile; 3 ways your techs can lower your instrument reprocessing costs

Near the end of the day, 6 recovery room nurses were standing around the PACU desk chatting it up. Not one of them was doing chart reviews or making follow-up calls...

My mission from hospital leadership: Reduce sharps injuries in our 2 regional hospitals by 5% in a year. We far exceeded our goals, managing a 60% reduction from...

No food or drink past midnight is slowly giving way to carbo-loading up to 2 hours before surgery. Fasting past midnight has been an unwritten Ordinance of the OR...

On the 1st day of Christmas my OR gave to me … PTSD from the Devil incarnate of a scrub tech I had to work with every day. I would call her a witch or a female dog...

A large hospital had so many case carts full of trays backed up during the day they struggled to turn around instrument sets in less than 24 hours. Within 6 months,...

In the absence of antibiotic alternatives, physicians in the early 1900s had no choice but to treat every infection with penicillin. Chronic pain went through a similar...