Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

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Simplify and streamline your pre-admissions process and get staff involved with this Idea That Works from Dublin, Ohio.

Your options for managing small pupils. The list of devices and drugs for pupillary dilation and maintenance is growing.

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

What's new in surgical lights? Shining a light on the innovations for illuminating the surgical field.

Endoscope reprocessing gone wrong. Recent outbreaks shine light on the dirty truth about the scope cleaning practices at facilities across the country.

Business advisor: The art of the flip. Ground rules govern when we let surgeons run 2 rooms.

Getting certified for total joint surgery. Hear from the very first facilities to achieve advanced certification for total hip and total knee replacement.

Monitor core temperatures to avoid malignant hyperthermia with this Idea That Works from Bridgeport, Conn.

5 steps to PONV prevention. Post-operative nausea and vomiting is one of surgery's most unwanted side effects. Here's how to keep patients' stomachs settled.