Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

The High Risks of High-Touch Surfaces; How do you assess cleanliness when a visually clean item can still harbor contamination?

Ideas That Work: Meds To Beds;Ideas That Work: Meds To Beds

Wound Irrigation in 4 Easy Steps; This 5-minute technique can help prevent a surgical site infection.

Medical Malpractice: Charting Through the EHR MedMal Minefield; 5 legal danger zones unique to electronic documentation

The Shift From Disinfection to Sterilization; We overhauled our GI scope reprocessing process in pursuit of our ultimate goal: to eliminate high-level disinfection.

Behind Closed Doors: Late Shift; Behind Closed Doors: Late Shift

Ideas That Work: No Seal, No Deal; Do Your Retention Plates Pass the 'Wiggle' Test?

Ideas That Work: Off-Label Use; Botox for Hernias? Yup!

Anesthesia Alert: In or Out of Love With Your Anesthesia Group? Before you switch providers, consider the true cost of divorce

New Ideas for Preventing Endophthalmitis; Intracameral antibiotics, proven to lower the rate of infection substantially, are catching on.