Product News; Great ideas for your OR

Colon Cancer Doesn't Stand a Chance; Endoscope advances and new diagnostic tools are helping physicians find difficult-to-spot polyps.

7 Accreditation Standards You Might Now Know Exist; You might be unaware of some of these common deficiencies I cite as a surveyor.

Ideas That Work: Stay on Schedule; Give Us This Day Our Daily Huddle

Ideas That Work: Alternate Your Defibrillator Batteries

On Point: Give New Technologies a Chance

Get Up to Speed On GERD; An update on minimally invasive treatments designed to turn down the burn of acid reflux.

Almost Left Behind; Lessons learned from a final count that came up 2 sponges short.

What's New in Anesthesia and Pain Control; The quest for speedier and safer fast-on, fast-off.

Staffing: Help Tomorrow's OR Leaders With Their Capes; Take the next generation of surgical superheroes under your wing

The Ink Must Go Where the Knife Will Cut; There'll be less wrong-site surgery if your surgeons cut through their initials.

Ideas That Work: Drawer-to-Arm Phenomenon; Does That Injection Come With an Infection?

Ideas That Work: Try This Tip on Your Tough IV Starts

A Credit Card Without Interest for Medical Expenses; Your patients benefit when you help them finance their rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs. Your facility does, too.

Ideas That Work: Hooping It Up; March Madness Brought Our Team Together.

When Is BMI Too High? Using body mass index to predict operative risk.

Rev Up Your Reprocessing Room; 8 exciting high-tech advances on the horizon for your facility's instrument hub.

Building Trust Between Surgical Teams and Robots; Q&A with Joshua Tyler, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Advances in Image-Guided Sinus Surgery; Enhanced real-time imaging and improved instrumentation tracking let surgeons operate smarter and safer.

Taking Their Last Breath; What if frontline staff demanded smoke-free ORs?