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California Hospitals Fined for Safety Violations

California's Department of Public Health has fined 18 hospitals $25,000 per incident for failing to comply with state laws overseeing patient safety...

What Happens When Opioids Backfire?

It's a rare and challenging pain management paradox: opioid drugs, designed to relieve acute and chronic pain, can have the reverse effect in some p...

Safer, Synthetic Heparin Developed

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., have built the largest dose of synthetic heparin ever created in a lab. The developme...


	Archive > February 2002	Vol. III, No. 2

FEATURES

5 Ways to Stretch Your Capital Equipment Budget

Expert advice on how to be a smarter shopper.

This Just In...

New Fire Safety Code Ignites Debate

My Turn

Hear Me: A Patients Advice

Letters/Corrections/Calendar

Insurance Q & A

Update on the Emerging Technology CPT Codes

Infection Prevention

Readers Speak Out About Laundry, Linen, and Other Issues

4 Tips for Safe Endoscopy Sedation

Experts talk about how to safely administer conscious sedation.

Managers Drive Down IOL Costs

Our latest survey finds four strategies that facilities are using to pay less for intraocular lenses.

A Guide to Colon Preps

Better tasting solutions, meal kits, and a new pill are some of the products that may make the prepping process easier for your patients

Update on Electrosurgery

New products and features make procedures safer, easier

How to Create an Effective Surgeon Satisfaction Survey

Tips for how to encourage your surgeons to reveal what they like and dont like about your facility.

Wrong Site Surgery: Are Your Patients at Risk?

The number of these preventable tragedies has risen annually since the mid 1990s. They can happen at even the most highly-respected facilities. Heres how to ensure that they will never happen at yours.

Product News

February 2002