Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Medical Malpractice: suits from slips, trips and falls. What's your liability when a patient takes a tumble at your facility?

Clear visibility. Don't let smoke, fog and debris impede your surgeon's view.

Ideas That Work: Innovative ideas. 4 Ways to Boost Your Hand Hygiene Efforts

Anesthesia Alert: The great LMA debate. Should you remove it before or after the patient wakes up?

Behind Closed Doors: I'm Not "Just a Nurse". We're more than most people realize. Marginalize us at your own risk.

Our switch from blue wrap to sterile containers. A busy orthopedic hospital's containerizing conversion.

Pearls to prevent cross-contamination. Infection preventionists share their top SSI threats and what you can do to stop them.

Is prolonged fasting hurting your patients? Our survey found that most surgical facilities routinely instruct patients to fast for excessively long pre-op periods

Legal Update: Tapping into the self-insured employer market. Direct contracts with employers cut out insurance's middleman.

Coding & Billing: 6 strategies to get your claims paid correctly. Don't let minor errors in coding, registration or billing trip you up.