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!

Why Go NPO After Midnight? It's time to get onboard with the not-so-new approach to pre-op fasting.

Wake Up to the Dangers of Sleep Apnea; 5 key takeaways from the new OSA guideline.