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Ideas That Work: Rx for Sheltering 200 People in Place
Expert Tips for Total Joint Efficiency;Build your program on these pillars of success.
Infection Prevention: Zero Infections and Counting; Small improvements made a big difference in this hospital's quest to eliminate surgical site infections.
Product News; Great ideas for your OR
Ideas That Work: Where Do You Store Patient Belongings?
Anesthesia Alert: 8 Little-Known Facts About Ketamine; Anesthetic and analgesic properties that make Special K special.
Employee Safety: An Exhaustive 3-year Quest for 12 Smoke-Free ORs; Northwest Hospital is the first hospital in Maryland to be completely smoke-free.
Shopping for a Compounding Pharmacy: Ask these 5 key questions to find the right drug supplier.
Anesthesia Alert: Cancellations Aren't Always Anesthesia's Fault; When a case is postponed, there's often plenty of blame to go around.
Is That Scope Clean? Verify It; Now you can confirm that reprocessed scopes have no residual contamination or damage that could harbor future microbes.
Have You Tried EMRs Lately?; Going paperless isn't as painful as you might think. No, really.
Thinking of Buying... Whole-Room Disinfection Systems; Your options for attacking bacteria that survive manual cleaning.
Legal Update: Dueling ASC Ownership Models; Can traditional ASC management companies compete with today's PPMs?
Infection Prevention: Are You Opening the Door to SSIs? Simple steps to reduce OR foot traffic - a preventable infection risk.
2018 Cataract Survey: What's Hot and What's Not; Readers weigh in on new eye surgery technology, new drugs, new procedures and more.
Behind Closed Doors: Amusing Musings; Questions answered and answers questioned about life in the OR.
Map Out Surgery With a 3D Organ Reconstruction; A patient created a life-sized model of his diseased colon for his surgeon to see.
The Queen of Hernia Repairs; I specialize in treating patients with hernia-related complications.
Ideas That Work: Laundry Duty; Tips for Laundering Your Own Linens
Ideas That Work: Sight, Sound, + Speech; Let Seniors Wear Their Hearing Aids and Glasses to the OR