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When Ohio Gastroenterology Group, a Columbus-based physician-owned practice with five endoscopy centers, was drowning in tens of thousands of monthly phone calls...

If your reprocessing techs handle a high volume of complex instrumentation day in and day out, it’s imperative that they take every measure possible to...

When Ryan Reynolds, star of the popular Deadpool movies and perennial rom-com leading man, agreed to have his first colonoscopy filmed for public release...

Want a surefire way to tarnish a superior surgical outcome from the patient’s perspective? Leave them with a lasting memory of the...

A decade ago, Taylor Cera, MBA, chief operating officer at Youngstown (Ohio) Orthopaedic Associates and The Orthopaedic Surgery Center...

When surgeons and nurses with UNC REX Healthcare in Raleigh, N.C., expressed concerns about instrument quality, surgical service materials...

Demand for outpatient orthopedics procedures continues to surge, with no end in sight. The question for surgical leaders and those looking to...

Telling your sterile processing technicians to “just follow the manufacturers’ instructions for use (IFUs)” can often be about as helpful as...

The ambulatory surgery market continues to grow, despite economic and business challenges that may limit the growth but not stop it from happening in the coming year and beyond. In a recent...

As many surgical facilities continue to struggle with the perioperative staffing crisis, data that helps us to better quantify the scope of the issue is in short supply as well....

Retention of staff is an ongoing, intensifying problem for many outpatient surgery facilities. Recently, some administrators shared their ideas with Outpatient Surgery Magazine on how to...

With the healthcare industry in the throes of a nationwide staffing crisis, nurses and techs have more power than ever over where they hang their scrubs....

Ask any staff safety expert and they'll gladly tell you all about the many benefits of double-gloving due to its ability to prevent infection-exposing needlestick injuries....

A study by researchers at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia examines an emerging development in the field of outpatient total joint arthroplasty...

As freestanding surgery centers welcome an ever-growing number of hopeful total joints patients, core components of successful programs have enabled various surgery centers to capitalize on the surge.

LAST CALL An airport-style security scanner at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics is saving tens of thousands of dollars' worth of valuable instruments from accidentally entering the waste stream.

Ask any staff safety expert and they'll gladly tell you all about the many benefits of double-gloving due to its ability to prevent infection-exposing needlestick injuries. Of course, getting surgeons and staff to comply with stringent...

Drs. Maximilian Kückelhaus and Tobias Hirsch from the Centre for Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Münster in Germany recently performed the first completely robot-supported microsurgical operations on humans using a new method in which a robot designed for microsurgery is networked with a robotic microscope.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has received reports of cancers, including squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and various lymphomas, in the scar tissue that forms around breast implants. It added that the lymphomas are not the same as those described in previous FDA communications as Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL).

Shoulder replacements, which once required hospital stays as a matter of course, have been consistently shifting to same-day outpatient settings. As a result, more patients have access to these surgeries. Anthony Romeo, MD, a Chicago-based....