Don't put phones before patients. Surgical safety group promotes cautious perioperative use of electronic gadgets.

Looking to accessorize your table? Today's newest patient positioning attachments add versatility to any surface.

Safety: Run down fire risk before every case. Fires are preventable if the OR team is aware of the risks.

Avoid these 5 patient positioning disasters. From pressure ulcers to vision loss, don't let positioning problems happen on your watch.

Medication safety pop quiz. Are you complying with best practices in medication safety?

A black box in every OR. Surgery can take a lesson from aviation, says the surgeon who invented a device that records every step of surgery.

Safety: Enhance your fire safety protocols. Address specific ignition risks during pre-op time outs.

6 patient safety enhancers. Give your staff the tools they need to prevent harm.

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

Simulated saline puts patients at risk. A training product somehow ended up on supply shelves?

Expert Q&A: wrong-site surgery. Why years of time outs and surgical site marking haven't eradicated this never event.

Surgeons' Lounge: Calling a cab. Would You Let a Patient Take a Taxi Home Alone?

Safety: The ABC's of electrosurgery. A pop quiz to test your staff's knowledge.

Manning the hotline for malignant hyperthermia. A conversation with the physician you're likely to reach in a real MH emergency.

What caused hot dog electric blanket to overheat? Investigators: Cold saline bag that was touching temperature sensor caused warming blanket temperature to soar.

Surgical Fire Q&A: "Even though most surgical fires last only about 4 or 5 seconds," says fire safety expert Mark Bruley, CCE, "they change lives."

How we beat pressure ulcers. The 7 things we did to lower our skin injury rate.

Safety: Blue dye mix-up blinds patient. OR mistook methylene blue, which is toxic to the eyes, for trypan blue.

Steer clear of wrong-site surgery. These kinds of mistakes are called never events because they never should happen to anyone, but they do happen.

Medication management essentials. Time to brush up on proper labeling, administration and dosing practices.