Anesthesia Alert: Believe in the Power of Hypnosis; Sedating patients with guided imagery and local anesthetics

Behind Closed Doors; My 2020 New Year's Resolutions

Pressure Ulcers: Surgery's Sore Subject; Your OR team can prevent pressure injuries by following these 5 guidelines.

Ideas That Work: 12-Step Process; Countdown to Room Setup

Product News; Great Ideas for your OR

Salary Survey: Your annual paycheck checkup

Ideas That Work: Staff-Made Reference Videos; An In-house Library Of How-to Instruction

5 Tips for Faster Turnover Times; Flipping ORs between cases demands tight teamwork and proper planning

Infection Prevention: 4 Ways to Wipe Away Surgical Site Infections; Follow this practical advice to ward off the threat of SSIs at your facility

Ideas That Work: Facility Feud; Game-show Themed Events Help Safety Training Stick

Safety: Simulate Emergencies in Bedside Mock Drills; Let staff practice their response to urgent situations before they occur

Master of the Airway; Are your providers comfortable with an airway device in their hands?

Ideas That Work: Cap and Gown; Caps Put Smiles on Kids' Faces

Ideas That Work: Seeing Is Believing; Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Warnings

Boost Your Adenoma Detection Rate; ADR is the gold standard in colonoscopy quality. Do you measure up?

It’s not uncommon for staff members in one department to believe they do more or matter more than their colleagues who work in other areas of the facility....

It should come as no surprise that most outpatient facilities warm their surgical patients. After all, there's an ever-growing mountain of evidence that says warming...

Got both my knees replaced in late August — and both at the same time. Yes, I only had one surgery, one hospital stay and one course of rehabilitation, but the pain...

You never know where you'll learn lessons about caring for patients, so I'm always on the lookout for excellence in service that I can translate to patient care....

The annual American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Anesthesiology conference is the world's largest anesthesia meeting. On a clinical level, I'm here to see the latest...