Special Editions Archive

The movement to remove toxic surgical smoke from the nation’s ORs has reached another milestone, as 20 states have now passed laws that mandate usage of smoke...

Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP, is president and founder of Sheldon Sones and Associates. Based in Connecticut, the company has provided more than 200 surgical...

Patient warming stories tend to focus heavily on the “comfort” factor. That makes sense when you hear about all the positive comments and high satisfaction scores that tend to...

Strong communication is the essential component in a perioperative culture of safety. It means clear, consistent and respectful interactions among all team members to...

Nearly half of the 1,575 sentinel events reported to The Joint Commission (TJC) last year were falls. Tied for second were wrong surgeries: There were 127 incidents, or 8% of all...

Sentinel events are often referred to as “never events” because of the potentially serious harm they pose to patients that should never happen....

Are you using the right 503B outsourcing facility for your needs? It’s a multilayered question that ASCs and HOPDs should return to regularly....

More than two decades after the landmark Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was passed in 2000, approximately 385,000 sharps-related injuries still occur in healthcare...

Orthopedic surgeries can be messy affairs that produce ample fluid waste. A perennial problem, of course, is how OR teams and turnover staff handle the management and...

Competition, cost-effectiveness and patient demand are bringing robotic platforms to surgery centers that wouldn’t have even considered such a high-ticket investment only...