Pain Control: Cruising Down the ERAS Pathway; Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital likes the way the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program handles its patients' pain.

Infection Prevention: The Instrument Whisperer Has Spoken; Tips on dealing with instrument repair and maintenance.

Ideas That Work: Stay on Schedule; Dry Erase Board Keeps You Uber-Organized

Keep Your Nose Clean: What's your nasal decolonization strategy?

Ideas That Work: Shelf Storage; Never Misplace a Pathology Specimen

Ideas That Work: Turnover; Don't Clean Until the Patient Leaves the Room

Satisfaction Guaranteed; 6 patient-pleasing ideas you can implement today.

The Calm Before the Surgery; A look at all-natural alternatives therapies that relax patients.

Ideas That Work: OR Construction; Welcome to Cardboard City

Ideas That Work: Sight, Sound, + Speech; Let Seniors Wear Their Hearing Aids and Glasses to the OR

Thinking of Buying... Whole-Room Disinfection Systems; Your options for attacking bacteria that survive manual cleaning.

Legal Update: Dueling ASC Ownership Models; Can traditional ASC management companies compete with today's PPMs?

Have You Tried EMRs Lately?; Going paperless isn't as painful as you might think. No, really.

Anesthesia Alert: Cancellations Aren't Always Anesthesia's Fault; When a case is postponed, there's often plenty of blame to go around.

Shopping for a Compounding Pharmacy: Ask these 5 key questions to find the right drug supplier.

The Queen of Hernia Repairs; I specialize in treating patients with hernia-related complications.

Ideas That Work: Laundry Duty; Tips for Laundering Your Own Linens

Is That Scope Clean? Verify It; Now you can confirm that reprocessed scopes have no residual contamination or damage that could harbor future microbes.

Infection Prevention: Are You Opening the Door to SSIs? Simple steps to reduce OR foot traffic - a preventable infection risk.

2018 Cataract Survey: What's Hot and What's Not; Readers weigh in on new eye surgery technology, new drugs, new procedures and more.