Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

We perform roughly 40 procedures a day at our busy orthopedic surgery center, and we expect every patient to leave the operating room without a pressure injury....

A few weeks ago I flew out to Denver with one primary objective: to see Rocky Mountain National Park — come hell or high water....

Lots of thought and energy is expended deciding which cleaning products to use and how to train staff to properly apply them....

Do you often feel stumped when it comes to creating fun, memorable and effective training ideas for your staff? ...

Do you clam up when the surgeon asks you to pick some music during surgery? Or are you just tired of the same ’70s, ’80s and ’90s playlists you’ve heard hundreds of times? ...

WellSpan Apple Hill Surgical Center in York, Pa., houses 10 ORs and three endoscopy procedure rooms, in which an average of 1,250 surgical cases...

In the outpatient joint replacement world, hips and knees are still king....

Before Christopher Miller, MD, an orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and New England Baptist Hospital in Boston...

Ever investigated just how many of the instruments and entire instrument trays that arrive in your ORs and procedure rooms throughout each day are actually necessary? ...

Orthopedic patients are often surprised that their bones are repaired with screws, drill bits, saws and other tools that look very much like what they have...