Ideas that work: hand-eye coordination. Operation board game sharpens lap-assisting skills.

Ideas that work: innovative ideas. Get their attention for wrong-site prevention.

Surgery center's coat drive an overwhelming success. Family violence shelter benefits from community's generosity.

Ideas that work: ergonomics. Elevate your kick bucket.

Ideas that work: secure endotracheal tubes with dental floss. Tie dental floss around a tooth.

Innovations in surgical imaging. National experts discuss the eye-popping images on display in today's ORs and what surgery might look like in the near future.

Thinking of buying ... smoke evacuators. Today's innovative devices evacuate surgical smoke right at the source.

Staffing: A spreadsheet that spits out a staffing budget. It gives you an hours-per-case analysis and sets realistic staffing levels.

Letters & E-mail. Talk back or sound off at [email protected]

What eye docs want in a laser cataract system. If you're in the market for a laser cataract platform, here's what to look for.

Product news.

Ideas that work: scrub sink bins. Remind staffers to don protective eyewear.

How would you handle these real-life emergencies? Preparing for the unthinkable in your facility.

Ideas that work: timeout X2. Pause after you reposition patients.

Editor's page. What a ride it's been for Nurse Nancy Burden.

Fair and equal pay? As your level of responsibility rises, your paycheck should keep pace.

Cutting remarks: Why do patients blow off their surgeries? They don't have a ride home or maybe they're getting cold feet.

Ideas that work: waiting room. Our EMR keeps patients' escorts in the loop.

Master of the difficult airway. New devices are making difficult cases safer — and opening the doors to more challenging patients.

Medical malpractice. Talking your way out of a lawsuit.