Special Editions Archive

Look beneath the surface. Take an in-depth look at how you disinfect your clinical environment.

Standardize your skin prep practices. Get patients, surgeons and staff on board with your pre-op bathing, hair-clipping and skin-antisepsis protocols.

Is FDA's push to ban powdered gloves long overdue? Experts say severe health hazards have been well known for years.

Take the bundled approach to infection control. Standardized protocols optimize efforts to prevent SSIs.

The new standard in endoscope reprocessing. A new national guideline offers clear advice for proper high-level disinfection.

Customize your knee replacements. Implants that match a patient's joint alignment and orientation are better than off-the-shelf hardware.

Colonoscopy upgrades worth considering. Imaging enhancements and endoscope advances aim to improve polyp detection rates.

Putting surgeons in touch with minimally invasive surgery. Q&A with Allison Okamura, PhD, mechanical engineer and robotics researcher.

4K lights up the OR. Will dramatically sharper detail lead to safer surgeries and better outcomes?

The robot revolution has begun. Innovative new platforms could someday redefine minimally invasive surgery.