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The guidelines that are changing surgical patients' care. Updated standards buck tradition in favor of early ambulation and doing away with NPO.

Are your safety checklists effective enough? Without these teamwork qualities, your OR staff's pre-surgical rundowns may be incomplete.

Lawsuit: anesthesia team ordered to skimp on anesthesia to speed patient discharge. Were doctors instructed to go light on sedatives and pain meds to move patients along? Fired anesthesiologist says his patient safety concerns were met with retaliation, a

Doctors sue AmSurg for blocking their plans for new ASC. Surgeons who signed non-compete clause after they sold out to corporate partner want to open their own surgical center.

Ortho docs debate newly developed surgery on newly discovered ligament. Is the anterolateral ligament, which runs along the outside of knee, the key to successful ACL repair?

Report: Olympus told U.S. executives not to warn hospitals about contaminated scopes. In internal e-mails, Olympus told U.S. managers not to issue a warning about the superbug outbreak.

Physician charged with multiple felonies in providing drugs to woman he met on seekingarrangements.com. Sean Fogler, MD, allegedly provided heroin, fentanyl, propofol, Percocet and other drugs to a woman he met through an online dating website.

Study: minimizing door openings during surgery lowers surgical site infection rate. One hospital reduced its infection rate by decreasing foot traffic in and out of the ORs.

Hackers install ransomware on ASC computer network. Pa. surgery center, fearing massive data breach, offers 13,000 patients a year of free credit monitoring.

Feds finally freeing funds for meningitis outbreak victims. The Department of Justice will distribute $40 million — those who suffered "catastrophic injuries" are eligible to receive a maximum of $50,000.

ASCs and HOPDs see slight hikes under CMS's proposal. The rule also includes clarifications on the site-neutral payment provision set to take effect in 2017.

FDA approves synthetic cartilage implant used to treat foot pain. The Cartiva device improves function and range of motion for osteoarthritis patients.

Anesthesia tech sentenced to 1 year for molesting unconscious patients. Nurses reported seeing him touch 4 male patients, including 1 minor.

Lawsuit: Spine surgeon, bone cement manufacturer responsible for woman's death. Patient bled out after surgeon used non-FDA-approved bone cement.

Researchers: pregabalin linked to birth defects. European study raises red flag on multimodal drug's use among childbearing women.

Patient allegedly infested With maggots following surgery. Lawsuit accused Florida hospital of providing unsanitary care.

FDA OKs first implant to reshape cornea. The Raindrop Near Vision Inlay improves near vision by changing the shape of the cornea.

Anesthesiologist responsible for woman who bled to death in PACU. Anesthesia group must pay up after patient bleeds out in recovery. A hernia repair patient suffered from internal bleeding in PACU for more than 2 hours before undergoing emergency surgery.

Did hospital ignore contaminated scopes and infected patients? When nurse pushed for officials to report the outbreak, she claims she was forced out of her job.

AmSurg, Envision Healthcare merge to form physician staffing giant. What will become of AmSurg's 250 ambulatory surgery centers?