A Planning Playbook for Opening a New Orthopedic ASC
The ASC market continues its rapid growth. In 2023, roughly 116 new ASCs opened in the U.S., many of which were orthopedic-specific in nature....
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By: OSD Staff
Published: 1/7/2015
UNUSED SCOPES
Number Your Scopes So You Know When It's Time to Reprocess
You probably reprocess your unused endoscopes weekly, but how do you track which scopes have been used and reprocessed and which haven't? We came up with a simple system. Using a white industrial marker, we number the grip section of each of our 14 scopes and use that number to track usage and reprocessing in our daily log. This way, we know that we have to reprocess any scope that hasn't been used in a week.
The ASC market continues its rapid growth. In 2023, roughly 116 new ASCs opened in the U.S., many of which were orthopedic-specific in nature....
In her 24 years as a nurse at Penn Medicine, Connie Croce has seen the evolution from open to laparoscopic to robotic surgery....
Through my decades of researching, testing and helping implement healthcare design solutions, I’ve learned an important lesson: A human-centered and evidence-based...