Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

BD's new PurPrep is the only fully sterile povidone-iodine plus isopropyl alcohol antiseptic skin prepping agent on the market. The new formulation is a fluid-resistant,...

Our surgery center hosts small infants and young adults, so we always come up with many different ways to establish trust with our patients and reassure them before...

Like religion or politics, I don’t feel comfortable talking about the reopening of our country. It makes me anxious. I don’t believe we’re ready even though I understand the...

The proper cleaning and high-level disinfecting of flexible endoscopes has been under increased scrutiny because their long, narrow channels make it difficult for reprocessing...

More than ever, older patients are doing everything within their power to stay active longer. For many with osteoporotic pressure injuries, multiple treatments often don't...

Putting patients in steep Trendelenburg is arguably one of the most challenging positioning tasks your OR staff faces. With the number of robotic urologic and...

Your OR staff is under enough pressure to achieve excellent outcomes and keep the surgical schedule on track during days packed with cases from early morning to late...

It's certainly been a challenging year for eye surgery centers, many of which were forced to close for several weeks during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Celebrating staff birthdays is far from a new idea, but we think we created the perfect twist to the common morale-booster. Before an upcoming birthday, several staff...

One of the many duties of perioperative nurses is to make sure cases start on time. No matter how full the day's OR schedule, however, they should never rush the informed...