Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Departments looking to foster professional development will often decide to start a journal club. But these departments tend to struggle with where to begin....

It cannot be overstated that the management of allergy information is an essential part of both the patient experience and patient safety at your ASC....

If you’re looking for a good way to offer hard-working staff some stress relief and help the local community, you can’t go wrong with puppies....

We’ve featured quite a few escape rooms over the years, focusing mostly on the camaraderie and fun they provide as staff education and training exercises....

Some patients have a deep-seated fear of needles that can taint even the smoothest surgical experience....

Providers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Endoscopy Department know that the care of their patients begins well before they arrive for their appointments...

While the jury may still be deliberating on how effective some whole-room disinfection and/or air purification systems are in reducing healthcare-associated infections...

Performance Health Surgery Center, created by the ASC design veteran firm Hardaway | Sziabowski Architects, is a 14,700-square-foot, four-OR multispecialty surgery center...

Airway management is a crucial component of modern medicine and enabling the safe and effective administration of anesthesia during surgery is paramount to patient...

For arthroscopic surgeons, seeing is succeeding. They need their technology to deliver clear, detailed and brilliant images from surgical fields that are dark and full of fluid....