Behind Closed Doors: The best of Paula Watkins. Some seriously funny stuff goes on in the OR.

Infection prevention: When everyone's a hand hygiene spy. Make surveillance everyone's job, and watch compliance rates soar.

Keep kids comfortable and entertained before surgery with these Ideas That work from Massachusetts and California.

The trouble with transvaginal mesh. Why did the FDA ever approve a product that has injured thousands of women? There's plenty of blame to go around.

Cutting remarks: Out to lunch. If you come back late from your break, you'd better have a good excuse.

Innovative Ideas: Discharge instructions done right.

No need to rewrite unchanged H&Ps with this Idea That Works from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Unobstructed view. Technology and techniques to help your laparoscopic surgeons see better.

Last one out cleans the OR. These 6 keys to terminal cleaning will leave your facility spotless after a hard day's work.

Rules of reprocessing: lumened instruments. Get back to the basics to properly sterilize these complex instruments.

A new way to think about retained items. Studies on the psychology of counting helped shape AORN's updated prevention guideline.

6 tips to boost your colonoscopy service line. Here's how high-volume GI centers improve their efficiency and patient satisfaction.

Prevent a cataract patient from moving his head during surgery with this Idea That Works from Florida.

Shopping for safer tourniquets. These features help prevent pressure-related injuries and other potentially serious complications.

Pick a picture-perfect arthroscopy video platform. Focus on the features your orthopods want in a new imaging system.

Is robotic-assisted joint replacement for you? The technology produces better outcomes and could send patients flocking to your center.

Is an orthopedic urgent care center for you? Because accidents don't keep regular business hours, neither should you.

Orthopedic positioning pointers in photos. When procedures call for you to suspend limbs, articulate joints and hyperextend necks, injuries are just waiting to happen.

Near-perfect pain control. Inside a surgical hospital's multimodal regimen.

The past and future of outpatient joints. Q&A with Richard Berger, MD, hip and knee replacement pioneer.