Infection prevention: 3 surgical attire battles worth fighting for. Breaks in these safe attire practices could harm patients.

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How do you dispose of fluid medical waste? Three facilities discuss their choice of liquid waste management.

Safe patient positioning: A photo essay. A pictorial depicting proper techniques to ensure surgical access and patient safety.

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Coding & billing: 3 places to look for hidden revenue. You're likely to find income stashed away in these unexpected places.

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Staffing: Avoid career burnout. 3 steps to improve your physical and mental wellbeing.

Double-gloving a hole in one? How we convinced our surgeons and staff to double-glove.

Endoscope reprocessing gone wrong. Recent outbreaks shine light on the dirty truth about the scope cleaning practices at facilities across the country.

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Your options for managing small pupils. The list of devices and drugs for pupillary dilation and maintenance is growing.

Behind closed doors: Does this stuff ever happen to you? Or am I the only lucky one to experience these OR oddities?

Getting certified for total joint surgery. Hear from the very first facilities to achieve advanced certification for total hip and total knee replacement.

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Are surgeons fueling the opioid epidemic? If surgeons are "unwittingly enablers of addiction, abuse and overdosage," how should they manage post-op pain?

What's new in surgical lights? Shining a light on the innovations for illuminating the surgical field.

5 steps to PONV prevention. Post-operative nausea and vomiting is one of surgery's most unwanted side effects. Here's how to keep patients' stomachs settled.