Are you getting the most out of your C-arm? The newest units offer enhanced imaging, smaller footprints and minimal radiation exposure.

Top-notch tables. Specialty surfaces that ease patient positioning and intraoperative imaging open outpatient doors to complex cases.

5 essentials in post-op pain management. Why you should ditch the opioids -- and what to use instead.

Unlabeled meds lead to $5.1M verdict. Local anesthetic switch left patient with brain damage.

Positioned for success. Situating patients properly provides surgeons with the access they need to optimize outcomes.

Inside our outpatient total joints program. Sending patients home hours after knee or hip replacement is ortho's hottest trend.

4 arthroscopy game-changers. From 4K to biologics, these advances are improving case efficiencies and surgical outcomes.

ASC Employee Who Sent Confidential E-mails to Her Home Convicted of Computer Fraud

Robotic surgery linked to 144 patient deaths over 13-year timespan. FDA documents show more than 10,000 reported robotic surgery problems between 2000 and 2013.

Patient sues hospital after surgical lights allegedly cause severe burns. This is the second lawsuit that claims an Oregon hospital's unfiltered halogen bulbs left patients with third-degree burns.

15 surgeons, 17 hospitals accused of using fake spinal hardware. Insurance companies in California have filed a civil complaint.

Nation's largest anesthesia billing company under healthcare fraud investigation. OIG executed federal search warrant amid healthcare fraud allegations at anesthesia billing and collections company.

House bill would intensify medical device monitoring. Sponsor cites power morcellator controversy.

Suspect wheeled $48,000 bed right out of Florida hospital. Thief struck with surgical precision during daring daytime heist caught on video.

Joan Rivers's docs proclaim innocence.No selfies, no fleeing: Multiple charges in malpractice suit denied.

CMS to bundle payments for total knees and hips. Pilot initiative would cover 75 areas, beginning next year.

Examining Exparel's effectiveness at controlling post-op pain. Does a pricier formulation of a traditional pain control medication deliver on its promises?

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