5 products to make your anesthesia more efficient. Are your providers equipped with these helpful technologies?

Surgeons' Lounge: Teamwork. Don't soak the pans.

The case for rigid containers. Is it time to make a clean break from blue wrap?

Surgeons' Lounge: Orientation just got easier.

Anesthesia Alert: Are older patients getting too much anesthesia?

Cutting Remarks: Patients say the darndest things. Knee cartridge, torn labrium, rotary cup and other mad malaprops.

Achieving world-class turnover time. Help in the never-ending battle to shorten the time between wheels out to wheels in.

Surgeons' Lounge: Clear facemask. A see-through surgical mask.

Ideas That Work: Decontam. Keep loaner trays straight.

Why not have scrubs professionally laundered? Research and common sense show the advantages are too many to ignore.

The real hazards of surgical smoke. Are dangerous particles lurking in the air of your OR?

Surgeons' Lounge: Relative humidity levels. Dangers of letting OR humidity dip below 30%

Hospital report cards don't appear to improve surgical care. New research suggests care is improving, regardless of who's watching.

Learning to love your EMR. A conversation with a surgeon who took his hospital paperless.

Staffing: Create a team of leaders. "Pit crews" give staff ownership in running the facility.

Ideas That Work: Charitable donations. Give expired supplies to those in need.

Product News - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - February, 2015

Ideas That Work: Empty your pockets. Ensure unused supplies find their way back to the storage room.

Ideas That Work: Why it's not good to bend IV catheters.

Busting 5 double-gloving myths. Crashing through the reasons surgeons and staff resist double gloves during surgery.