Outpatient Surgery Magazine's eNews Briefs. Bringing you the surgical news you want.

Outpatient Surgery Magazine's eNews Briefs. Bringing you the surgical news you want.

Outpatient Surgery Magazine's eNews Briefs. Bringing you the surgical news you want.

Outpatient Surgery Magazine's eNews Briefs. Bringing you the surgical news you want.

Outpatient Surgery Magazine's eNews Briefs. Bringing you the surgical news you want.

Gargantuan freestanding sterile processing facilities are becoming a thing. Just this year, Ohio State University and Penn Medicine unveiled stand-alone facilities. This trend...

When most people think of "video," they think screens ?— specifically, their size and whether they have HD or 4K resolution. In an OR, size and resolution are obviously...

A number of converging factors are making robotic abdominal surgery an intriguing prospect for many outpatient facilities. Intuitive's patents on the da Vinci robot...

What do you hope viewers will take away from your Netflix show? I hope they see that surgery is work that requires an extreme amount of empathy....

Once again, the Hot Technology special issue highlights the latest, cutting-edge technology transforming ORs — and the way we care for patients. I've always looked...

My hospital's sterile processing department is a constant buzz of activity. We manage 2,000 instrument sets and 47 techs work around the clock to reprocess more than 300...

Instead of going through the relative inconvenience of driving to in-person appointments three weeks after undergoing joint replacement surgery, more than 90%...

My hospital's sterile processing department is a constant buzz of activity. We manage 2,000 instrument sets and 47 techs work around the clock to reprocess more than 300 trays — from basic laparoscopy equipment to complex orthopedic instrumentation...

The pandemic has increased the importance of properly disinfecting ORs between cases, and facilities have maintained safe spaces for surgery with rigorous manual...

At my former hospital, a patient expressed concern about sticker residue on the outside of the plastic binder that held their paper chart and wondered aloud about the overall cleanliness of the facility. A nurse quickly attempted...

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When post-op infections occurred among patients who underwent colon and gynecology procedures at University of Wisconsin (UW) Health, clinical leaders...

Video laryngoscopes have increased in use during the pandemic in order to better protect anesthesia providers from potentially aerosolized COVID-19 during intubations. Before that, they were frequently employed...

Exorbitant healthcare costs in America are a driving force in our troubled economy. Attempts to save money in this arena by public officials usually involve cutting services to Medicare recipients. I think there's...

Daniel K. Guy, MD, FAAOS, discusses the continuing migration of procedures to outpatient settings, challenges facing the specialty, exciting “reality” devices, the opioid crisis and why diverse patients need to see themselves in their orthopods.