4 Secrets of Our Nerve Block Success; Tapping into regional anesthesia's potential sends patients home sooner, in less pain and more satisfied with their care.

True-Life Tales of Trying Airways; Anesthesia experts share their most memorable difficult intubations - and what they learned from their experiences.

How to Stock Your MH Carts; Your staff needs easy access to rescue medications and essential supplies when the patient's life hangs in the balance.

What's Your Medication Safety IQ? Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of drug security, storage and administration.

Primed for Recovery; Optimizing patients' nutrition before surgery prepares their bodies for the physical rigors of surgery.

Retired Wide Receiver Catching On in the OR; Q&A with Nate Hughes, MD, former NFLer and future anesthesiologist.

Don't Put Off Patient Warming; Efforts to prevent hypothermia work best when they begin in pre-op.

Should You Go IV-Free? Oral sedation promises to improve efficiencies and increase patient satisfaction in busy eye centers.

At the end of pre-op clinic appointments, I hand patients a business card that includes my personal email address and request that a family member send me a message...

You've come to the right place if your surgeons and OR staff aren't happy with the gloves they're using, or if you're just looking for a better glove or a better deal. Not only...

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Dedicated regional block nurses are invaluable when it comes to preparing patients for blocks, administering catheters and staying on schedule. But leadership doesn't always...

Adding new and innovative procedures is a proven way to increase your revenue, attract new patients and surgeons, and set yourself apart from the competition....

You can manually clean an endoscope until it shines and examine every millimeter of its insertion tube for pinhole leaks, but none of that matters if fluid remains in the scope's...

Ambulatory surgery center payment rates as a percentage of the hospital outpatient department rates have steadily declined over the years. In 2003, procedures...

We're all probably a little numb to medication safety. We get it. It's super important. We live the life. It's easy to become complacent until we have a problem....

We're a couple months into our unlikely — and unprecedented — partnership in which 3 rival hospitals within a 50-mile radius own and use the same ambulatory surgery...

Today's modern surgeons are directors and executive producers of the motion picture institutes that are today's sleek ORs, routing video from and to any flat-panel,...

Jennifer Pennock is AORN's senior manager of government affairs, though lately a better title for her might be senior manager of smoke evacuation legislation efforts....

Surgical facilities track a lot of data — quality measures, patient census, service line revenue and so on. But here’s something that no one regularly tracks: lifetime...