The case for rigid containers. Is it time to make a clean break from blue wrap?

What's the standard for pre-op showers? An infection prevention researcher responds to updated skin prepping guidelines.

Surgeons' Lounge: Teamwork. Don't soak the pans.

Surgeons' Lounge: Orientation just got easier.

Cutting Remarks: Patients say the darndest things. Knee cartridge, torn labrium, rotary cup and other mad malaprops.

Anesthesia Alert: Are older patients getting too much anesthesia?

Achieving world-class turnover time. Help in the never-ending battle to shorten the time between wheels out to wheels in.

Surgeons' Lounge: Clear facemask. A see-through surgical mask.

Ideas That Work: Decontam. Keep loaner trays straight.

Complications from surgery cause most hospital readmissions. Study says surgical site infections are the biggest reason patients return to hospital.

Court: Doc who froze during surgery didn't break employment contract. Lengthy legal battle leaves both hospital and surgeon with wins and losses.

Jury awards woman $30 million after throat catches fire. Fire left her unable to talk or breathe on her own.

Joan Rivers's personal voice doctor denies accusations she fled endo clinic. Accusations fly about what really happened when the routine endoscopy took a turn for the worse.

Clinic, Physicians Hit with Multimillion-Dollar Suit in Joan Rivers Case. Melissa Rivers says conduct was "almost incomprehensible."

Morphine following common childhood surgery may be life threatening. Study finds that children receiving morphine after tonsillectomy may face fatal breathing problems.

Outbreak at Seattle Hospital infects at least 35, suspected in 11 deaths. Officials say infected scopes had been sterilized according to manufacturers' guidelines.

Unfiltered OR lights burn patients at Oregon hospital. Up to 10 patients suffered mild to severe burns thanks to unfiltered halogen lights, hospital says.

Wyoming ASCs' recovery care proposal iced. Hospital opposition foils plans for outpatient joints.

Court overturns $12 Million defamation judgment against plastic surgery patient. Judges say verdict "shocks the conscience of this court" and order new trial.

Brigham and Women's doctor shot, in critical condition. Gunman, said to be the son of a former patient, then shot and killed himself.