Safety: My Personal Plea to Ban Surgical Smoke; Don't wait for lawmakers to make your ORs smoke-free.

The High Risks of High-Touch Surfaces; How do you assess cleanliness when a visually clean item can still harbor contamination?

The Rise of Flat-Panel C-arms; What's fueling the move from traditional image intensifiers to digital flat-panel detectors?

Ideas That Work: Meds To Beds;Ideas That Work: Meds To Beds

Staffing: Impressionist Movement: Use art to sharpen your staff's observation and communication skills.

Ideas That Work: Fun Ride to the OR; Climb Aboard the Worm Wagon

New Ideas for Preventing Endophthalmitis; Intracameral antibiotics, proven to lower the rate of infection substantially, are catching on.

My Turn: Blessed to Let Go Together; My patient and I leave our grief over losing a loved one on PACU Bay 6

Ideas That Work: Location, Location, Location; Hang Your Hand Sanitizer Dispensers With Care

Product News: Great ideas for your OR

7 Tips for a Successful 4K Conversion; Inside our $2 million upgrade to ultra-high definition imaging.

Anesthesia Alert: In or Out of Love With Your Anesthesia Group? Before you switch providers, consider the true cost of divorce

How to Answer Patients' Hernia Mesh Questions; Amongst fear and fabrication, be the voice of reason.

Yes, You Can Perform Opioid-Sparing Surgery; How to go easy on the prescription painkillers - yet still control your patients' pain.

Thinking of Buying... Small Bone Power Tools; Thinking of Buying... Small Bone Power Tools

Staffing:Develop Your Own Homegrown OR Talent; Fewer temps and travel nurses give us greater staffing stability

Wake Up to the Dangers of Sleep Apnea; 5 key takeaways from the new OSA guideline.

Ideas That Work: Off-Label Use; Botox for Hernias? Yup!

Why Go NPO After Midnight? It's time to get onboard with the not-so-new approach to pre-op fasting.

Ideas That Work: Deaf Patients