Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Multimodal pain management has a domino effect on surgical outcomes: By using this approach, facilities reduce opioid use, which often translates into...

Just because an instrument has been reprocessed doesn’t mean that it’s clean. In some cases, that’s because reprocessing techs are rushing and forced...

Accreditation is much more than a simple stamp of approval. It’s evidence your facility has met meticulous, nationally recognized standards of quality, patient care and safety....

The number of unintended retained surgical items (URSIs) reported to The Joint Commission (TJC) continued to decline in 2022, with 88 events disclosed...

There’s nothing easy about cleaning flexible endoscopes. They’re fragile and expensive and one can argue the margin for reprocessing them safely is...

According to the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States (MHAUS), malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a potentially fatal inherited...

If you’re serious about sustainability in the OR, then you’d better be focused on your glove purchasing practices....

The healthcare industry heard the jarring news in January: 7,600 people bought bogus nursing diplomas with cash from three South Florida schools and were now...

Soon after I started my career in the OR 42 38 (!) years ago, the first Universal Law of OR Nursing grabbed me by my scrub jacket and shook me into a higher state of consciousness....

With ASCs increasingly taking on more complex surgical cases, there is a growing movement for surgery centers to take on patients who have traditionally been relegated to hospital-only care...