Members of perioperative teams must remember complex protocols — and know how to apply them in practice. McDonnell Outpatient Surgery Center at Piedmont Atlanta is part of a health system-wide safety program...

Hopefully, there’s a robust hand hygiene culture among the staff at your facility. But what about your patients? They might not be as aware of the importance of keeping their hands clean during the course of their care. That’s why...

To say that Jeremy Warner, MD, FACS, has seen an uptick in demand for cosmetic surgery in recent years is a bit of an understatement. “Throughout the pandemic,...

Last May, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) revised its guideline for patient skin antisepsis to provide evidence-based practices that reduce...

Ophthalmology is a physically demanding specialty. Surgeons spend good portions of their day looking through the eyepieces of surgical microscopes, leaning forward...

Robotic-assisted joint replacement surgery continues to gain momentum, even though there isn’t much data that shows the technology leads to better joint function....

Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common entrapment neuropathy and a condition for which many patients seek treatment, according to Mark A. Mahan, MD, FAANS....

Imagine walking into the operating room of tomorrow and feeling out of place in unfamiliar surroundings. “ORs are going to look very different in the future,” ...

If you’re one of the many facilities leaders wrestling with trying to decide which patients should undergo nasal decolonization before their procedures, you might be asking...

Lee Rubin, MD, held his iPhone up to his computer’s webcam during a recent conference call to show the participants video proof of how well patients do after joint...

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The patient underwent a revision decompression with a two-level front-back fusion first thing in the morning and was up and moving about by evening. “That was definitely...

The black and white photo is faded, but it’s easy to make out the wide smiles of anesthesiologists Wallace Reed and John Ford. The two men are shaking hands at a banquet table to celebrate the opening of SurgiCenter,...

Ophthalmic surgeon Jason J. Jones, MD, performs up to 24 cataract cases a day at the Jones Eye Clinic in Sioux City, Iowa. He is able to keep up the rapid pace during those...

Thanks to the ever-increasing use of multimodal pain management protocols, an increasing number of total joints patients are walking out of facilities on the same day...

How does the structure and design of a healthcare facility impact the performance of the surgeon and the outcome of the surgery?...

Spine procedures are arguably the hottest trend right now in outpatient surgery, presenting enormous opportunity for ASCs as more cases move out of hospitals....

Many total joint replacements are rapidly becoming outpatient procedures, fueled by demands from insurance companies and the preferences of patients and surgeons....

In 2021, St. Cloud (Minn.) Surgical Center performed nearly 1,000 total joint cases, nearly double the almost 400 procedures it did in 2020. This growth would’ve been...

When people think of “integrated” or “hybrid” ORs, they tend to think of huge monitors and innovative new features such as augmented reality, virtual reality and robotics....