OR Excellence heads to the Big Easy! Join us next year for jazz, jambalaya and jaunts down Bourbon Street.

Never stop striving to improve patient throughput and room turnovers. Are your Ors truly efficient?

Price transparency's biggest proponent, Keith Smith, MD, shared his radical plan to revolutionize the healthcare system.

You can make 'never events' a reality with renewed focus and attention are what's needed.

Surgery's best were honored during a celebratory luncheon for OR Excellence Award winners.

In court, the medical record is the care rendered. How to survive a medical malpractice suit.

Purchase of GE Healthcare's Vital Signs Division, expands CareFusion's patient care consumables presence.

J&J hip-implant settlement expected tomorrow. Reports: Each hip implant plaintiff to receive around $300,000.

Researchers speculate that incision site pain may influence some surgical patients' temporary post-op memory and learning impairments.

Patient wants $100,000 she paid for 6 failed lithotripsies refunded.

A correction to an article about preparing for a malignant hyperthermia emergency.

Symbion Up for Sale? - This Just In - November, 2013

California fines hospitals $775,000 over patient deaths and safety hazards.

Several controversies surround the case of Sheldon Randall, MD.

A look back at last month's biggest and best OR Excellence conference yet.

Break up ice in bags occasionally to avoid frozen blocks when needed for MH emergencies. An Idea that Works from a medical center in California.

Readers share their best tips to get your equipment working again quickly and reliably.

Are some ASCs being unfairly excluded? Some claim they are getting the shaft from Oregon's new coordinated care organizations.

Ensure you make a wise purchase on your next ophthalmic microscope by asking these 5 questions.

Remove the guesswork so you can defend your choice in surgical skin antisepsis. What is your standard of care in skin prepping?