Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Keep kids comfortable and entertained before surgery with these Ideas That work from Massachusetts and California.

Rules of reprocessing: lumened instruments. Get back to the basics to properly sterilize these complex instruments.

Cutting remarks: Out to lunch. If you come back late from your break, you'd better have a good excuse.

Prevent a cataract patient from moving his head during surgery with this Idea That Works from Florida.

Infection prevention: When everyone's a hand hygiene spy. Make surveillance everyone's job, and watch compliance rates soar.

Behind Closed Doors: The best of Paula Watkins. Some seriously funny stuff goes on in the OR.

2016 cataract technology survey. Which innovations are cataract surgeons embracing?

6 tips to boost your colonoscopy service line. Here's how high-volume GI centers improve their efficiency and patient satisfaction.

A new way to think about retained items. Studies on the psychology of counting helped shape AORN's updated prevention guideline.

Unobstructed view. Technology and techniques to help your laparoscopic surgeons see better.