Editor's Page - Bariatric Surgery - March, 2005

Are Your Instrument Reprocessing Practices Surgically Precise? - Infec

Defeating an Invisible Enemy - Infection Control - May, 2003

Single-use sterile pens for marking surgical sites may not be the most effective products for infection control. Canadian researchers at the University of Alberta Faculty...

Surgical mesh used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence can cause severe complications when placed through incisions in the vagina,...

A Florida-based eye surgeon filed for bankruptcy this week in the latest chapter of an ongoing legal dispute with his former employer, St. Luke's Cataract...

The American Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities has produced a new, 3-disc educational tool designed to help ASCs "prevent some...

According to a recent online survey of Outpatient Surgery Magazine readers, less than half of you have installed HD video systems in some or all of your ORs....

Is your staff protected from the potentially harmful effects of surgical smoke? Even if you've installed the necessary ventilation systems and purchased smoke...

The seemingly constant debate over the best way to sedate patients for GI procedures is complicated, demanding discussions about healthcare economics, case...

While growing in popularity, minimally invasive joint replacements are "raising concerns about potential complications," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing several...

Is morbid obesity a factor leading to last-minute cancellation of outpatient surgery? No, according to a small study that concluded that body mass index (BMI) over 50, long...

Since CMS has stopped paying for "never events," the frequency of hospital liability claims may increase, according to a September report published by the...

In addition to PACU's standard regimen of clinical care, some non-drug interventions can help to ease patients??? anxiety and, in turn, their post-op pain. Mindy Wallace,...

A physician-owned surgery center recently completed a $9 million expansion to become the second ASC in the Cincinnati area to convert to a specialty hospital...

You'd be surprised by how much physician schedulers can learn during a tour of your surgical circuit. They'll realize that patients are rotated through ORs with...

Today many doctors are willing to discuss their mistakes with colleagues and patients, and a few are even telling their patients, "I'm sorry." A study published in...

Yes You Can Get Reimbursed for Nerve Blocks - Promotion Pieces - May,

A recent study shows that discrepancies in surgical counts occur in one out of every eight surgeries. Those discrepancies, which can involve a misplaced or lost sponge,...

Back to Basics - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - October, 2008