When it came to surveilling SSIs, Baptist Health South Florida’s Outpatient Services unit was, in the words of its nurse leaders, “tracking everything, but tracking nothing....”

It takes a team to ensure surgical instruments are clean, sterile and ready for surgery....

It’s not unusual for the turnover team at a surgery center to be compared to a NASCAR pit crew — a group of people working together quickly and efficiently to achieve the...

Surgical robots, once only affordable to the largest hospitals and health systems, are now finding their way into a growing number of outpatient surgical facilities as patents...

Between regional anesthesia, multimodal medication regimens and ERAS pathways executed with military-like precision, postoperative pain management is as efficient...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City proves that going green doesn’t automatically mean you will lose green....

The Monroeville (Pa.) Ambulatory Surgery Center faced a significant challenge surrounding inefficient instrument use that led to increased costs and delays in surgical...

Like many hospitals across the country, The Valley Hospital in Paramus, N.J., experienced a period of low staffing in its sterile processing department (SPD)...

Postoperative pain is a common symptom after inguinal hernia repair, with patients still reporting pain even after being discharged home....

With more than 30 staff members and numerous physicians performing thousands of surgeries in various specialties, it was difficult to get everyone on the same page at...

The goal of a project launched at Waupun (Wis.) Memorial Hospital in August 2022 was to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs) in a few service lines....

When the former nurse manager of Kaiser Sacramento (Calif.) Ambulatory Surgery Center discovered potential issues with the information staff delivered to patients...

No sentinel events spurred the change, but 2021 audits by the nurses and surgical technicians at The Reading Hospital SurgiCenter at Spring Ridge revealed that...

The annual OR Excellence Awards is our attempt to shine a light the efforts of hardworking ASCs and HOPDs teams and celebrate their myriad achievements....

Everyone is aligned with the idea that endoscopes need to be dried before they’re stored because germs thrive in their long, dark, narrow channels....

Many surgical equipment and instrumentation manufacturers’ instructions for use (IFUs) for cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing their products are not as clear...

Complex tasks require consistent protocols, as even seemingly minor variations can cause critical steps to fall through the cracks....

In most facets of health care, the practical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are mainly theoretical right now....

Between an aging population and the reduced recommended screening age of 45 for colonoscopies, demand for colorectal and related screenings is increasing....

Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions....”