Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

First, do no harm. Practical steps you can take today to keep your patients out of harm's way.

Business Advisor: Saturday colonoscopies. The benefits of performing screenings on weekends.

Your guide to orthopedic power tools. Give your surgeons what they want with smaller, stronger and smarter options.

Infection Prevention: 5 bad infection habits to break. These common practices might do more harm than good to your patients.

Opportunities in outpatient trauma. How orthopedic ASCs can handle walk-in fracture care and other same-day trauma.

The new world of drug compounding. New regulations have improved safety, but some key distinctions are both subtle and important.

Ideas that work: collections. Ensure patient payments every time.

Reduce the risk of pressure ulcers. Skin injuries can occur without preventative measures in place.

Coding & billing: Cuts to 2016 colonoscopy rates run deep. The physician work values for the colonoscopy family are cut up to 17%.

Ideas that work: secure endotracheal tubes with dental floss. Tie dental floss around a tooth.