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

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.

Coding & billing: Cuts to 2016 colonoscopy rates run deep. The physician work values for the colonoscopy family are cut up to 17%.

Ideas that work: collections. Ensure patient payments every time.

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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.

Death of anesthesiologist found along downtown Minneapolis freeway ruled an accident. Dr. Christopher Robert, apparently fell on his walk home from a workplace Christmas party, died of a blunt force head injury.

Mix-up at hospital costs woman her breast. Tissue samples taken from a woman in her 30s were confused with those of an older woman.

FDA reclassifies vaginal mesh as high-risk device and orders manufacturers to address safety concerns. The move is the latest effort to improve the safety of transvaginal pelvic organ prolapse procedures.

Study: Patients can shower 48 hours post-operatively without increasing SSI risk. Those who wash 2 days after surgery are also happier with their care, a new study finds.

Why surgeons turn up their tunes. Piano-playing physician studies what music brings to the OR table.