Patients considering outpatient surgeries often have no idea of the true scope of the enterprises that offer them convenient, effective same-day procedures....

Nurse fatigue is a real and present problem in the healthcare environment. Recently, ECRI, a global, independent authority on healthcare technology...

When you are worried about a patient’s vital signs and need to check them frequently, Nurse Hailey, an ER nurse who runs the Instagram account @rnnewgrads, recommends something simple...

Cryoanalgesia has been gaining popularity in recent years in the surgical field thanks to its effectiveness in relieving pain while remaining minimally invasive....

Who says Facebook scrolling can’t be productive? Laura Gayton, MHCA, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM, director of outpatient surgery for St. Louis University South Campus Surgicenter...

A few weeks ago, I headed down to Louisville — or is it Looavul? Or Luhvul? — for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s (ASCA) Annual Conference...

The modern X-ray is a story of progress, transitioning from film to the digital era alongside many other modern technologies....

Surgical site infections (SSIs), among the most common complications in health care, are responsible for delayed wound healing, hospital readmissions...

I may be aging myself, but I trained in an era that was all laparoscopy and endoscopy; there was no robotics at the time....

Medication safety can be a matter of life and death. The RaDonda Vaught case served as a wakeup call about the importance...

If you give a patient the choice between a one-and-a-half-centimeter incision on the crease in their wrist with a speedy recovery prognosis or a four-to-five...

One way to understand the current landscape of office-based surgery is to think back to a time when both patients and payers were unsure about what ASCs could do....

Innovation in instrumentation is something I’m passionate about because advances in the tools we use can help me, as an academic orthopedic surgeon...

For Dr. Mieres and the team at Northwell, diversity is ultimately about improving health care for everybody....

Administrators and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leaders play a key role in ensuring that their organizations are properly governed....

Welcome to A Day in the Life of an Administrator, our new online column, where we sat down with Carson McCafferty, MSN, RN, CNOR, CNAMB, CSRN...

I’ve been in the infection prevention program here at UnityPoint Health - Meriter for about 12 years, where I split my time between doing disease...

A safe and efficient sterile processing department is a cornerstone of every facility’s infection prevention and safety efforts....

The intraoperative normothermia compliance rate at our 25-OR facility was 56% in September 2021, far lower than the numbers from our...

It’s probably a good policy to avoid sticking your nose in everyone’s business. But when it comes to infection prevention, hospitals and surgery centers...