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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 > July 2003	Vol. IV, No. 7

FEATURES

RNs Pushing Propofol

This highly controversial practice is finding a home at an increasing number of facilities. Is this good medicine or risky business?

Medicine & Religion: A Contentious Mix

A Catholic health system's decision to ban surgical sterilizations has riled a group of surgeons.

How to Evaluate Orthopedic C-Arms

5 simple steps to selecting the best unit to meet the fluoroscopy needs of your ORs.

Hello Electronic Medical Records, Farewell Paper Charts

A look inside a high-tech surgery center, where tracking systems follow patients and meds from start to finish.

From The Show Floor: What I Saw at AORN

A report on the latest in capital equipment on display at the AORN's 50th Congress in Chicago

Is Image-Guided Surgery Right for Your Facility?

Find out how 3D visualization and guidance of implants and instruments let your surgeons perform more accurate, less invasive surgery.

7 Factors to Consider Before Buying a Phaco Machine

Through demos, research and talking to your surgeons, you can make the right decision.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

RNs Should Not Push Propofol

This Just In

Ideas That Work

Real-Time OR Stats Motivate Staff to Be on Time

Staffing

Four Ways to Cover Staff Vacations

Legal Update

6 Steps to Negotiating Safer Corporate Partnerships

Thinking of Buying

Centralized OR Controls

Infection Prevention

Is Anything That Goes Below the Waist Non-Sterile?

Site Visit

The Advanced Plastic Surgery Center, Yonkers, N.Y. Tackling AAAASF, JCAHO — and Yonkers

My Turn

Best When Anesthesiologist Directs or Provides Care

July 2003