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Pain ManagementAnesthesiaOrthopedics

Nerve Blocks Needed

By: Gregory Hickman, MD08/16/2022

Injecting a nerve cluster with a local anesthetic can provide patients with days of pain relief following orthopedic, abdominal or spine surgery. Regional anesthesia means...

Patient SafetyPatient ExperienceInfection PreventionAnesthesia

Make Prewarming a Priority

By: Jared Bilski | Managing Editor08/16/2022

Preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia, a complication that can cause a host of problems such as vasoconstriction, tissue hypoxia and an increased likelihood of...

Patient SafetyAnesthesia

Best Practices in Difficult Airway Management

By: Jared Bilski | Managing Editor08/16/2022

The most difficult airway is the unanticipated one. Those eight words of advice that Robert W. Simon, DNP, MS, CRNA, CHSE, CNE, heard repeatedly throughout his...

Staff Training and EducationPatient SafetyHealthcare ITAnesthesia

Is VR the Future of MH Training?

By: Joe Paone | Senior Editor08/16/2022

In a world turned upside-down by COVID and dizzying rates of staff turnover, live, team-based training on how to quickly respond to an instance of the rare but potentially fatal phenomenon of malignant hyperthermia (MH) is...

Patient ExperienceAnesthesia

What’s New in PONV Prevention?

By: Tong J (TJ) Gan, MD, MBA, MHS, FRCA08/16/2022

Your surgical team just successfully completed a total hip replacement with robotic assistance on a 70-year-old woman. The anesthesia provider administered ondansetron, a serotonin 5-HT3 receptor antagonist,...

Patient ExperiencePain ManagementAnesthesiaOrthopedics

Momentum Builds for Opioid-Free Total Joints

By: Dan Cook | Editor-in-Chief08/15/2022

Mo Halawi, MD, grew up in Lebanon, where he remembers his grandmother receiving acetaminophen to manage her pain after a major surgery. When he began practicing...

OpinionAnesthesia

Guest Editor: Behind the Drape

By: Robert W. Simon, DNP, MS, CRNA, CHSE, CNE08/15/2022

Anesthesia providers often make everything look easy — perhaps too easy. When staff walk into an OR during a surgical case, it can appear like we’re not doing much at all. But anyone who has ever worked in this field will tell you...

OR Excellence

Meet the Speakers and Their Expertise

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors07/27/2022

Speaking before a live audience, especially in a more intimate setting that OR Excellence provides, allows for an entirely different experience for the speakers and attendees....

OR Excellence

Learn to Become a Transformative Leader

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors07/26/2022

Sheri Prentiss, MD, MPH, CPS/A, CPE, FACPE, a dynamic personality who is often referred to as Dr. Sheri, wanted to be a physician ever since she was two years old....

OR Excellence

Find Your Resilience During Adversity

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors07/26/2022

In 2016, Julia Scotti warmed her way into the hearts of millions of viewers worldwide when she appeared on NBC’s hit show “America’s Got Talent” and advanced all the way...

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