Cutting Remarks: The joys of ICD-10 documentation. The new coding system requires equal parts precision and patience.

What's the Harm? Our readers challenge home-laundering scrubs and other sacred practices of surgery.

Business Advisor: going green can save you green. 10 ways that environmental stewardship can really pay off.

Use this Idea that Works to avoid delays in the perioperative process.

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Safety: Time for a new surgical checklist. It starts earlier, ends later, saves time and prevents complications.

Nationwide outpatient satisfaction survey to begin next month. It's voluntary now, but may be mandatory later.

Courts: Dental practice's negligence resulted in patient's sexual assault. CRNA gets life in prison, but dental practice is responsible for 100% of $3.7 million verdict.

Surgeon operated on wrong part of brain. Officials: Surgeon and his team skipped the time out and hid the error afterwards.

Widow sues Olympus and custom Ultrasonics over husband's Superbug death. Suit: Defectively designed duodenoscope made parts of the instrument difficult to access for cleaning and sterilization.

Surgeons reach peak performance between 35 and 50 years old. Evidence suggests that post-op complication rate higher in surgeons with 20+ years of experience.

Results from first head-to-head comparison of Exparel and conventional Bupivacaine. New study shows not much separates standard bupivacaine from pricey Exparel.

Forbes: Punitive ban on physician-owned hospitals imposed by the Affordable Care Act Has to go. Hospitals owned by physicians are often the most efficient, state-of-the-art facilities in the country.

'Post-Hospital Syndrome' is a risk factor in elective surgery. Patients who've been hospitalized within 90 days of surgery have higher post-op readmissions, study finds.

FDA approval of Sugammadex appears imminent. Independent panel gives unanimous nod to anesthesia-reversal drug.

Infections from Flexible Endoscopes cited as No. 1 health tech hazard. Missed alarms and opioid-related deaths also on the Top 10 Health Technology Hazards List for 2016.

Certification should be required, say sterile processing pros. Survey also finds a strongly perceived lack of respect.

A Fond Look Back at OR Excellence 2015. Pictures from this year's conference in San Antonio.

Help boost staff spirit and promote self-confidence with this Idea That Works from Fremont, California.

Cutting Remarks: Bad blood. All bleeding eventually stops. I just wish it would never start.