November 2004 Table of Contents 12 Tips to Cut Cataract Case Costs Here's how your colleagues are battling back against higher supply and equipment costs and frozen reimbursements. 5 Tips for Managing Pediatric Post-op Pain How to prepare your facility, your patients and your patients' parents. 6 Tips for Switching Distributors Whom you contract this valuable service to might be your biggest sleeper in terms of cost and operational efficiency. Ask the Experts Mopping the OR Floors Between Cases Coding & Billing Leaving Money on the Table? Editor's Page The Rise of the Joint Venture Grow Your Bottom Line Without Doing One More Case Are you leaving money on the table? Here are 10 ways to collect what's rightfully yours — and get paid in full. Hospital OR Monitor Innovative Safety Lessons Ideas that Work Give Patient Escorts a Beeper Infection Prevention Is Your Water Safe? Legal Update Malpractice Policies to Live By My Turn Compassion Fatigue? This Just In No Smoking In the OR In your quest for safer surgery, here's how to convince your surgeons to actually use the smoke evacuation devices you've purchased. On the Path to Perpetual Inventory A thriving facility is well on its way to automating its materials management system and reducing its supply cost per case. Product News Scar-less Surgery? Safety Speak Up to Prevent Sharps Injuries Staffing Volunteers: Valuable and Free Survey: Brushless Scrubs Catching On Many who use the new alcohol-based products say scrub times and skin problems have decreased while infection rates have stayed the same. Thinking of Buying...Liquid Waste Disposal Systems Find out how to meet the challenge of disposing of fluid waste safely and economically. DID YOU SEE THIS?
