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AMA Calls for Self-Referral Disclosure

Any physician who refers a patient to a healthcare facility in which he has ownership should disclose the financial relationship to the patient, acc...

Study: Patient Harm More Common with Pain Pumps

Just how dangerous are pain pumps? A new study suggests that errors related to pain pumps are four times more likely to result in patient harm than ...

Electronic Records May Reduce Malpractice Claims

Electronic health records are intended to improve efficiency and reduce medical errors, but can they also lower malpractice claims? A new study publ...


	Archive > August 2005	Vol. VI, No. 8

FEATURES

How Would You Prep This Patient?

Test your knowledge about hair removal, prep selection and pre-op showering in our eight-question quiz.

A Piece of the Action

To sell or not to sell part of your surgery center to a corporate partner? That is the question. We asked those in scrubs and suits for the answer.

Do Peripheral Nerve Blocks Make Your Surgeons Skittish?

Whether your docs dread delays or fear failures, here's how to overcome their objections to regional pain blocks.

Six Tips for Assessing Pain in Elderly Patients

Find out why these sometimes-stoic patients are often undertreated for pain — and what you and your staff can do to prevent it.

Why We Converted to Coblation Tonsillectomy

Our patients spend considerably less time in the OR and in PACU - and on the sofa at home.

From the Show Floor: What I Saw at ASCRS

Reviewing the new products for cataract surgery.

Don't Sweat Your Site Visit

From credentialing to competencies to crash carts, here's a heads-up on what your accreditation surveyor will be looking for.

Thinking of Buying...A Steam Sterilizer

Picking the right chamber size and type of sterilizer for your facility.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

Keep Propofol in Trained Hands

Letters & Emails

GPOs Are Not Wholesalers

This Just In

Gastro Docs Petition FDA to Relax Propofol Warning

Ideas That Work

An Alternative to Drops for Cataract Patients

Staffing

How to Convert to a Four-day Workweek

Behind Closed Doors

Hear, See, Speak No Evil in the OR

Product News

Extra Light at the Surgical Site

Medical Malpractice Quiz

Spinal Anesthesia Goes Awry

August 2005