Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Legal Update: Be smart about smartphone use. Mitigate the legal risks of cell phones in your facility.

2017 OR Excellence awards. For these 7 winners, a commitment to going beyond the "call of duty" is in their DNA.

Time to add bariatric surgery? Weight-loss surgery can be your gain.

Are those stethoscopes clean? You may be ignoring this common source of pathogens.

Pain Control: When total joint patients want to kick up their heels. At Houston Physicians' Hospital, a multifaceted initiative has dramatically improved pain scores and recoveries.

Editor's Page: FDA's forced air letter seems a little forced. The FDA recommends you continue using 3M's forced-arm warmers.

This Idea That Works from Maryland, will help eliminate danger to staff and risk of infection when checking blood sugar.

Can you pass our electrosurgery quiz. Find out how much your surgeons and staff know about the science of surgical energy.

SSI Prevention: A bridge between infection prevention and the OR. A late career switch stamping out surgical site infections.

Financial Management: This ENT center sees strength in numbers. The Surgery Center of Fort Wayne, Ind., takes a team approach to purging unnecessary costs.