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Keep Your Guard Up for Malignant Hyperthermia
Keep your guard up for malignant hyperthermia. Here's how we keep from being caught unprepared.
How to Create a Latex-Safe Facility
How to create a latex-safe facility. Rather than trying to rid your facility of latex, treat all your staff and patients as if they have a latex allergy.
What's New in ENT Navigation Systems?
What's new in ENT navigation systems? These GPS-like devices help surgeons navigate through the nose using a 3D map created from CT scans.
Ideas That Work: Pre-Op Anxiety in Kids
Make anesthesia masks less scary for kids with this Idea that Works from Portland, Oregon.
Ideas That Work: Coffee, Juice Or Tea?
Avoid bottlenecks in post-op with this Idea That Works from Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.
Ideas That Work: Patient Warming
Take out the chill of cautery pads before placing them on the patient with this Idea That Works from Monticello, Utah.
Corrosion-Free Instruments
Corrosion-free instruments. The keys to preventing spots, stains and pits.
Infection Prevention: What's Up With TASS?
Infection Prevention: What's up with TASS? Incidences are on the decline, but there's still work to be done.
The Case for Standardizing Skin Preps
The case for standardizing skin preps. The opportunity to reduce infections is just one of several benefits.
Ideas That Work: Seal The Drape
Seal the drape to keep blood out of hair, an Idea That Works from Richmond Heights, Ohio.
Editor's Page: The Father of Ambulatory Surgery
Paying tribute to Dr. Wally Reed, outpatient surgery's true pioneer. The father of ambulatory surgery.
A Sharps Safety Program Even OSHA Could Love
A sharps safety program even OSHA could love. Inspectors lauded our efforts to limit needlesticks and cuts.
Ideas That Work: Save on Gauze
Save on guaze with this Idea That Works from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Ideas That Work: Save Time and Trouble
Save time and trouble by placing pre-wrapped trays on the case cart. An Idea That Works from Voorhees, New Jersey.
Transition to ICD-10 Delayed Again
Transition to ICD-10 delayed again. The new coding system got caught up in political wrangling on Capitol Hill.
Did United Use Phony Excuses and Delay Tactics to Avoid Lap-Band Payments?
California surgery centers and physicians are suing insurer United over its weight-loss surgery reimbursement practices.
Could 3D Printing Revolutionize Surgery?
Could 3D printing revolutionize surgery? Now you can strategize with an exact replica before you operate.
Bug Zapper
Bug zapper. Room-disinfection robots shoot beams of ultraviolet light to reduce the bacterial count on surfaces you might have missed.
The View From Inside
The view from inside. For colonoscopy, good visualization is getting better.
Why 3D Still Matters
Why 3D still matters. Depth perception brings several advantages to surgical imaging.