It’s an exciting time to be in the orthopedics industry. When you combine innovations in sensor-based wearable technologies, smart implants and more accessible...

Finding an easy-to-implement, cost-effective and widely accepted patient-approved infection prevention protocol to help prevent surgical site infections...

Charles Hannon, MD, MBA, an orthopedic surgeon with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is a leading researcher on pain management before, during and after hip...

When Benjamin M. Mauck, MD, was fatally gunned down in a Collierville, Tenn., exam room in July, allegedly by a troubled patient, the Memphis-area community lost...

Recently I was asked to put together a presentation on avoiding common mistakes in credentialing, privileging and peer review....

Welcome to A Day in the Life of an Administrator, our online column, where we sat down with Rob Taylor, RN, BS, IP, clinical director and total joints coordinator...

These days, you can’t turn on the TV without being assaulted by drug commercials promising to improve everything from your erection to your opioid-induced constipation...

Expanding the landscape of surgeries for Medicare patients at ASCs in 2024 does not look promising....

Training and education are at the forefront of everything we do in patient care. Unfortunately, when it comes to expanding the knowledge and skills...

I’m a sucker for traditions. Those set-your-clock-to-it moments you look forward to all year....

If you want staff to be more engaged and active in quality improvement and other care-related initiatives, think small....

ASCs are required by accreditors like AAAHC to educate staff and complete scenario-based simulations on “internal disaster” topics such as malignant hyperthermia...

Being the only transgender man in the Medical-Surgical unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Mick Masaba, RN, BSN...

Bend (Ore.) Surgery Center has been operating for more than a quarter-century and, for its leaders, showing appreciation to staff has always been baked into the ASC’s mission....

The volume potential in a GI center creates unique challenges and opportunities, whether you are just starting out or have been offering GI cases for years....

Sure, a successful surgery in the patient’s eyes means waking up and knowing they will soon have their mobility and, essentially, their quality of life back....

Our health system acquired part of an under-utilized shopping mall and converted it into a surgery center.....

One evening this August, more than 350 local doctors, athletes, celebrities and business leaders attended a cocktail reception in Marina del Rey, Calif....

Not long ago, the notion of opioid-sparing surgery — the process of reducing potentially addictive narcotics through pre- and intraoperative multimodal anesthesia...

There was a time when all surgical power tools had to be handwashed (or, in sterile processing parlance, manually cleaned) because the devices weren’t...