Don't Put Off Patient Warming; Efforts to prevent hypothermia work best when they begin in pre-op.

What's Your Medication Safety IQ? Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of drug security, storage and administration.

Retired Wide Receiver Catching On in the OR; Q&A with Nate Hughes, MD, former NFLer and future anesthesiologist.

4 Secrets of Our Nerve Block Success; Tapping into regional anesthesia's potential sends patients home sooner, in less pain and more satisfied with their care.

How to Stock Your MH Carts; Your staff needs easy access to rescue medications and essential supplies when the patient's life hangs in the balance.

On Point: Anesthesia Advance's Pace Outpatient Care; Skilled providers are helping you add increasingly complex procedures.

Primed for Recovery; Optimizing patients' nutrition before surgery prepares their bodies for the physical rigors of surgery.

If you've invested in robots, you might as well let everyone know that your facility offers the most advanced surgical technology. Our hospital, Pascack Valley Medical...

Adding new and innovative procedures is a proven way to increase your revenue, attract new patients and surgeons, and set yourself apart from the competition....

Dirty instruments, broken instruments, missing instruments. In an ideal world, we'd never have to worry about the sterile processing department (SPD) causing...

How difficult is it to prep the skin for surgery? You pick an antiseptic agent and paint it on in concentric circles, beginning at the incision site and working outward,...

It's easy to blame this case of wrong-person surgery on the pathologist who admittedly mixed up biopsy slides, but we're still left to wonder what if anything the OR team...

Surgical facilities track a lot of data — quality measures, patient census, service line revenue and so on. But here’s something that no one regularly tracks: lifetime...

Whether you're a new OR leader still settling into your role or you've been herding surgeons for years and have the battle scars to prove it, one thing is certain:...

We're a couple months into our unlikely — and unprecedented — partnership in which 3 rival hospitals within a 50-mile radius own and use the same ambulatory surgery...

Our OR nurses suggested that when we were doing the count, that would be a perfect time to have a conversation about specimens before they go out to pathology....

Today's modern surgeons are directors and executive producers of the motion picture institutes that are today's sleek ORs, routing video from and to any flat-panel,...

Jennifer Pennock is AORN's senior manager of government affairs, though lately a better title for her might be senior manager of smoke evacuation legislation efforts....

Want to keep things running smoothly all day? Then get off to a fast start with your first-time starts. Here's how we did it:...

At the end of pre-op clinic appointments, I hand patients a business card that includes my personal email address and request that a family member send me a message...