Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Coding & billing: 3 places to look for hidden revenue. You're likely to find income stashed away in these unexpected places.

Get IVs started in less time with this Idea That Works from Palo Alto, California.

Safe patient positioning: A photo essay. A pictorial depicting proper techniques to ensure surgical access and patient safety.

How do you dispose of fluid medical waste? Three facilities discuss their choice of liquid waste management.

Legal update: It's not easy to deep-six deadwood docs. Forcing out lower-producing physician-owners is fraught with risk.

Editor's Page: More Questions Than Answers - Outpatient Surgery Magazi

Safety starts at the top. Leadership is the first key to prevention.

6 lessons our (near miss) medication error taught us. Injecting a patient with local anesthetic instead of contrast dye was a blessing in disguise.

12 things you didn't know about airway emergencies. They can be difficult to predict and frightening to manage. Here's what you need to keep in mind.

Are surgeons fueling the opioid epidemic? If surgeons are "unwittingly enablers of addiction, abuse and overdosage," how should they manage post-op pain?