Legal Update: Manage your facility's vicarious liability risk. You could be liable for the negligence of your independent contractors.

Behind Closed Doors: channel surfing. What if you could click away from a bad day?

The whole truth about whole-room disinfection. Automated antimicrobial devices reach the corners and crevices that sprays and wipes sometimes miss.

Seat the LMA perfectly every time with this Idea That Works from Rockville, Maryland.

ASCs and HOPDs see slight hikes under CMS's proposal. The rule also includes clarifications on the site-neutral payment provision set to take effect in 2017.

FDA approves synthetic cartilage implant used to treat foot pain. The Cartiva device improves function and range of motion for osteoarthritis patients.

Lawsuit: Spine surgeon, bone cement manufacturer responsible for woman's death. Patient bled out after surgeon used non-FDA-approved bone cement.

Anesthesia tech sentenced to 1 year for molesting unconscious patients. Nurses reported seeing him touch 4 male patients, including 1 minor.

Researchers: pregabalin linked to birth defects. European study raises red flag on multimodal drug's use among childbearing women.

Patient allegedly infested With maggots following surgery. Lawsuit accused Florida hospital of providing unsanitary care.

FDA OKs first implant to reshape cornea. The Raindrop Near Vision Inlay improves near vision by changing the shape of the cornea.

Anesthesiologist responsible for woman who bled to death in PACU. Anesthesia group must pay up after patient bleeds out in recovery. A hernia repair patient suffered from internal bleeding in PACU for more than 2 hours before undergoing emergency surgery.

Hidden benefits of patient warming. The value of maintaining normothermia extends beyond contentment into the not-so-obvious areas of infection prevention and pain management.

Did hospital ignore contaminated scopes and infected patients? When nurse pushed for officials to report the outbreak, she claims she was forced out of her job.

Who should deliver anesthesia? The turf war between MDs and CRNAs heats up.

Stay on guard against malignant hyperthermia. The best drills simulate the urgency of a real life-or-death crisis.

Supercharge your continuous nerve block program. These 3 technological advances could make continuous catheters easier to place.

New strategies to prevent nausea and vomiting after surgery. Updated guidelines tell us how to manage patients who are at increased risk for PONV.

Anesthesia's role in curbing the opioid epidemic. Q&A with Asim Alam, MD, FRCPC, DRCPC, anesthesiologist and opioid-use researcher.

Where's the nearest video laryngoscope? Your anesthesia providers need to know they can secure even the most difficult airway.