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Keep patients' escorts accountable for the ride home with this Idea That Works from Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Editor's Page: Don't flip your lid over surgeons in skullcaps. The iconic symbol of surgery is at the center of a dress-code dustup.

How does your endoscopy reprocessing compare? Our reader survey shows most GI facilities are following national standards, but it also uncovered some worrisome trends.

Patient Safety: Constantly striving for zero patient harm. Staff at The Valley Hospital in New Jersey will do everything possible to protect those in their care.

SSI prevention: SSI-Free: 14 years and counting! For Kindred Hospital in Las Vegas, it's been an epic run of success.

Should we ue video laryngoscopes for all intubations? Why relegate the tool that gives you the best chance for success when difficult intubations arise to a backup role?

Staff Safety: Sparing no Eexpense to keep staff safe. At TRIA Orthopaedic Center, employee safety is job No. 1.

Legal Update: No. 1 HIPAA privacy risk? Snooping staff. Employees peeking at patients' medical records far from uncommon.

The trouble with transvaginal mesh. Why did the FDA ever approve a product that has injured thousands of women? There's plenty of blame to go around.

Keep kids comfortable and entertained before surgery with these Ideas That work from Massachusetts and California.

Rules of reprocessing: lumened instruments. Get back to the basics to properly sterilize these complex instruments.

Cutting remarks: Out to lunch. If you come back late from your break, you'd better have a good excuse.

6 tips to boost your colonoscopy service line. Here's how high-volume GI centers improve their efficiency and patient satisfaction.

A new way to think about retained items. Studies on the psychology of counting helped shape AORN's updated prevention guideline.

Innovative Ideas: Discharge instructions done right.

No need to rewrite unchanged H&Ps with this Idea That Works from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Unobstructed view. Technology and techniques to help your laparoscopic surgeons see better.

Last one out cleans the OR. These 6 keys to terminal cleaning will leave your facility spotless after a hard day's work.

Behind Closed Doors: The best of Paula Watkins. Some seriously funny stuff goes on in the OR.