Special Editions Archive

Orthopedics is a male-dominated field. What needs to be done to remedy that? This is a very big topic because we have to address the underlying causes of...

Baby boomers are getting older and have no intention of suffering through debilitating hip pain during their golden years. Perhaps in the past, older individuals put up with...

Total joint replacements have long been recognized as one of the more painful surgeries patients undergo. Thanks to the widespread use of multimodal pain...

We’re witnessing a perfect storm of factors converging at the perfect time to make outpatient spine one of surgery’s hottest specialties. There’s overwhelming physician buy-in, widespread insurer acceptance, proven statistics...

Proper patient positioning before shoulder surgery prevents painful nerve and pressure injuries, and gives surgeons critical access to hard-to-reach areas of the joint space....

Orthopedic surgery centers that purchase robotic platforms for knee replacement surgery are investing in the promise of positive outcomes and the potential to tap into...

Outpatient orthopedics has come a long way in a very short period of time. I vividly remember when my mother-in-law had her knee replaced in a hospital and how she couldn’t sleep afterward because she was in such...

You were a successful nurse anesthetist when you gained national attention from Dirty John, a podcast about your former husband John Meehan, disgraced CRNA, con man...

At their core, anesthesia machines are basically all the same: They administer inhalational agents to induce sedation or general anesthesia while maintaining...

At my most recent full-time clinical role in a hospital, there was a significant issue with post-op infections in patients who underwent colon procedures. We instituted...