Keeping your patients safe is obviously a core value at your facility, yet compliance with best practices designed to avert serious complications and injuries is sometimes alarmingly low. Use this quiz as a starting point to gauge how well your staff is ready to spare your patients from unnecessary harm.

The nation's melting pot is at a full boil. Consider that racial and ethnic minorities in this country will become the majority population in the coming decades. The United States...

Throughout my career as a perioperative director and surgery center administrator, I've developed information packets that inform my teams about what accreditation surveyors might look for and ask about. I eventually thought...

 One of the common misconceptions providers have when caring for pediatric patients is thinking they’re little adults who can be treated with scaled-down versions of...

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What do surgical facility leaders need to understand about infection prevention? They need to practice an old-school mentality and be meticulous about every facet...

Patient warming prevents inadvertent perioperative hypothermia, which can cause vasoconstriction, tissue hypoxia and a decreased ability to fight infections. Perioperative warming...

Considering the astronomical costs associated with even a single surgical site infection (SSI), it makes sense to take every possible precaution to mitigate the risks. But one...

Professionals in the sterile processing department (SPD) do their part to break the chain of infection by disinfecting and sterilizing the tools physicians use to provide safe...

As soon as patients are wheeled out of ORs, your surgical team jumps into action. They wipe down and disinfect surfaces, thoroughly mop every square inch of floor space,...

The sterile processing department at my busy medical center was recently expanded to ensure instrument care could keep pace with the opening of new operating rooms and...

Lowering your facility’s rate of surgical site infections (SSI) is not something you can accomplish overnight. But that didn’t deter us from wanting to improve our infection...

An increasing number of disinfecting robots have been rolling through the hallways at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth. They’re being used in various areas...

Reprocessing flexible endoscopes is a never-ending job filled with potential pitfalls that can jeopardize patient safety. Our endoscopy center performs about 60 cases a day,...

You’re probably beyond exhausted right now. As the pandemic raged on relentlessly over the past year, you worked ceaselessly and went to extraordinary lengths to...

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Great Ideas for your OR

Complaining is as American as baseball (the games are too long!) and apple pie (the crust isn’t flaky enough!). Many of our problems simply aren’t that serious, but that doesn’t stop us from griping about, well,...