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General Anesthesia Contributes to Post-op Pain

Some "noxious" general anesthetics excite sensory neurons that cause peripheral pain in patients once they wake from surgery, researchers say. I...

WHO Issues Surgical Safety Checklist

The World Health Organization and the Harvard University School of Public Health have created a new perioperative checklist for surgical team member...

Surgical Business Ethics in the Press

It's no secret that some leading orthopedic surgeons receive six- and seven-figure payments annually from the makers of artificial hips and knees. B...


	Archive > March 2005	Vol. VI, No. 3

FEATURES

The Benefits of Bar Coding

Find out how the technology increases patient safety, decreases supply costs and improves patient flow.

Make Your Endoscopy Service Lean and Mean

Here are five areas crucial to your success and some simple ways to improve them.

5 Tips for Selecting Surgical Lights

Before you trial and select a new lighting system, find out what these managers learned while buying their OR lights.

How We Nearly Quadrupled Our Pain Procedures

Tips for staffing, streamlining and billing to increase productivity and efficiency.

Overcoming the Roadblocks to Regional Anesthesia

If it's as great as everyone says it is, why isn't everyone doing it? For starters, you have to promote the benefits and downplay the barriers.

Coming Soon to an OR Near You: Outpatient Hip Replacement

Minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty could be an ideal addition to surgery centers with orthopedic specialties.

Should You Add an MRI?

Here's what you need to consider if you're thinking of adding imaging to your facility.

Thinking of Buying...Anesthesia Services

Six questions to consider when contracting with an anesthesia provider group.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

Preventing Surgical Infections a Timing Game

This Just In

Calm Before the Storm

Letters & Emails

Accreditation Photos Miss the Mark

Ideas That Work

Use a Date Stamping Gun on Your Packs

Legal Update

Resist the Temptation to Bill Like a Hospital

Coding & Billing

Coding for Colonoscopy: The Ins and Outs

Staffing

You're Hired!

Hospital OR Monitor

Safety

The Case for Double-gloving

Product News

What's Collecting Dust in Your Facility?

Medical Malpractice Quiz

Elderly Patient Goes Up in Flames

March 2005