Don't use saline bags to position patients. Improvised shoulder roll a patient safety danger.

The secret to fewer post-operative deep-vein blood clots. Prevention program leads to an 84% drop in the rate of DVT.

Marriage and Medicine: A match made in... Can you excel in your career and have happily-ever-after, too?

Snapshots of the speakers and sessions on tap for OR Excellence 2014. Here's what we have in store for you at our fabulous, fun-filled fall conference.

OR Excellence heads to the Big Easy! Join us in October for jazz, jambalaya and jaunts down Bourbon Street.

Revitalizing your relationships with anesthesia providers. They should be an integral part of your team.

Shouldn't you be doing outpatient total joints? Our special pre-conference session will show you that same-day total joint surgery is now within your reach.

Meet your new best friend at ORX. Networking opportunities abound at surgery's friendliest, warmest conference.

Growing a culture of safety. Take-home tools to manage disruptive behaviors.

Eliminate the errors you can, manage the ones you can't. History is a great guide for risk management.

Let technology make pre-admissions a breeze. Untapped opportunities hold huge potential benefits.

No texting during time outs! Eliminate electronic distractions from the surgical environment.

He did what? Unusual problems, creative solutions. Handling the taboo, the strange and the dreadful.

Competency is your center's currency. Your staff is qualified, but is it excelling?

About my error. An orthopod talks candidly about wrong-site surgery

You can't make this stuff up. Two seasoned pros share the lessons learned from surgery's head-scratchers.

Getting patients to pay up on the day of surgery. Learn the keys to collecting out-of-pocket expenses.

2014 OR Excellence schedule at a glance.

Winning the War Against SSIs - ORX Session Previews - June, 2014

Happy hour in the ORX exhibit hall. Enjoy free wine tasting and Martini Madness.