Up and running with uni knees. Adding partial replacements is a great way to launch an outpatient joint program.

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

Fed up with fluid waste? Capture arthroscopy's runoff before it makes a mess of your ORs.

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.

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

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

Study: minimizing door openings during surgery lowers surgical site infection rate. One hospital reduced its infection rate by decreasing foot traffic in and out of the ORs.

Hackers install ransomware on ASC computer network. Pa. surgery center, fearing massive data breach, offers 13,000 patients a year of free credit monitoring.

Feds finally freeing funds for meningitis outbreak victims. The Department of Justice will distribute $40 million — those who suffered "catastrophic injuries" are eligible to receive a maximum of $50,000.

How we've (nearly) eliminated flashing. The New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai went from flashing nearly half of its instruments to hardly any.

Don't let unlocked carts lead to undetected abuse. Try this Idea That Works from Newington, Conn.

Save time and energy pulling cases with this Idea That Works from Corinth, Mississippi.

Capture your share of same-day spine. What factors will influence where your surgeons will bring their cases?

What's new in ophthalmology? 9 new products your cataract surgeons would love to get their hands on.

Decisions, Decisions: sorting through your options in surgical video. It's hard to pick the best surgical video system when the technology keeps changing.

Special Report From DDW: 7 cool new gadgets your GI docs will love. A gastroenterologist tours Digestive Disease Week's exhibit hall.

Recycle blue wrap and help the homeless with this Idea That Works from Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Editor's Page: compounding the compounding disaster. Was a callous disregard for people the Rx for medication contamination?

Product News - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - July, 2016