Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

In search of the perfect hernia repair. The latest mesh options and fixation techniques are making surgery safer and more efficient.

Legal Update: Mini surgical construction boom ahead? Physician-owned hospitals might soon be able to add more beds.

Organize your policies like your accreditor does with this Idea That Works from Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Fixing our broken pre-admission process. We met our goal of 100% chart readiness by 6 p.m. on the night before surgery.

Clear out clutter with this Idea That Works from Atlanta, Georgia.

Coding & Billing: When payers demand refunds and takebacks. Strategies to fight back and protect what's rightfully yours.

Here is an Idea that Works from Hazelton, Pa for helping to ensure "never events" never happen.

Battling post-op pain without opioids. 5 multimodal approaches that work best when pain from surgery is at its worst.

Where there's smoke ... If you smell charred flesh in the OR, you're probably inhaling invisible toxic gases, too.

The sinking of Sedasys. What doomed the much-ballyhooed computerized sedation system to failure?