Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Regional anesthesia's economic advantages. Peripheral nerve blocks save dollars and make sense.

Perfect your pre-admission process. Advice for starting every patient experience on the right foot.

How comfortable are your ORs? Take this hospital's lead and focus on features that ease the daily grind.

Behind Closed Doors: What's in Paula's pockets? Why hoarders make efficient nurses.

Are morcellators safe for hysterectomies? They speed the procedure, but do they spread cancer, too? See what this gynecologic surgeon has to say.

Can you pass this prepping quiz? Want to start a great debate? Ask your surgeons and nurses to defend their skin prepping preferences and beliefs.

Tips for greening the operating room. Sensible steps you can take today to shrink your carbon footprint.

Ideas That Work: Recognition and reward. Share compliments (and maybe cash). Share positive feedback and reward staff with this Idea That Works from Torrance, Callifornia.

Infection Prevention: A superbug meets its unlikely match. Well-designed mass e-mails helped curb Acinetobacter baumannii.

Cutting Remarks: Recovery room blues. Things don't always go as planned in PACU.