Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Cutting Remarks: Just play it cool like The Fonz. You gots to chill when things go wrong in the OR.

Thinking of Buying ... Hip surgery tables and accessories. Their positioning abilities enable a less-invasive approach to joint repair.

Anesthesia Alert: A new nerve block for posterior knee pain. The "iPACK" controls pain in the back of the knee after arthroplasty.

Thinking of buying ... smoke evacuators. Today's innovative devices evacuate surgical smoke right at the source.

Ideas that work: innovative ideas. Get their attention for wrong-site prevention.

Ideas that work: hand-eye coordination. Operation board game sharpens lap-assisting skills.

Ideas that work: ergonomics. Elevate your kick bucket.

Staffing: A spreadsheet that spits out a staffing budget. It gives you an hours-per-case analysis and sets realistic staffing levels.

Ideas that work: secure endotracheal tubes with dental floss. Tie dental floss around a tooth.

Innovations in surgical imaging. National experts discuss the eye-popping images on display in today's ORs and what surgery might look like in the near future.