Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

If you’re thinking of getting a Real ID or an enhanced ID when you renew your driver’s license, you’ll want to make your stay at the DMV as pleasant — and as short...

Whether you’re looking to relieve the pre-procedure anxiety of your patients or to help your staff through trying or stressful times, consider adding a furry...

Surgeons have a love-loathe relationship with safety scalpels. On the one hand, more surgeons are using scalpels with retractable or otherwise protected blades...

We believe it’s a good idea for our community that we help patients with no insurance who are unable to have surgery. Some time ago, one of our surgeons was looking...

The pain response is a built-in warning system, nature’s way of protecting us from further harm. Chronic pain is more like nature’s nagging nuisance....

Here’s a look at 5 promising ways to tamp down the intense, persistent post-surgical pain of orthopedic surgery....

For all the benefits of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, a persistent problem continues to plague one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures:...

When patients show up for surgery, our front desk receptionist hands them a numbered tag and writes the number on the envelope in which we keep their...

Cataract surgeons who claim they're not worried about piercing the posterior capsule with a sharp instrument or oscillating phaco tip? "They're either lying or...

Monitoring hand hygiene compliance need not be a bore of a chore. No, you can make it fun. I gave our managers “Presidio Police” badges and water guns filled with...