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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 > October 2005	Vol. VI, No. 10

FEATURES

Dueling Over Propofol

GI docs and a small faction of RNs are trying to wrest the propofol syringe from the hands of anesthesia providers.

Do You Measure Up?

Compare your financial and clinical performance to established surgical benchmarks.

Inside Our Pain Pump Success

Providing continuous peripheral nerve blocks at home helps this facility convert inpatients to outpatients.

The Economics of Patient Warming

How preventing hypothermia is more cost-effective than treating it.

Overcoming 10 Cataract Challenges in the OR

Advice for handling tough situations, improving your outcomes and keeping your surgery day on track.

Buy a Monitor That Keeps Going and Going and Going

Here's how to make sure the next vital signs monitor you buy stands the test of time.

6 Tips for Safe Tissue Handling

Here's how to minimize the risk of infection during allograft procedures.

Thinking of Buying...A Surgical Boom

What to consider before you suspend equipment and monitors from your OR ceilings.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

The Economics of Endoscopic Sedation

This Just In

900,000 Office Cases, 16 Deaths

Ideas That Work

Thank Your Stars

Behind Closed Doors

Top 40 Countdown

Staffing

Make Staff Competency a Pleasure to Measure

Coding & Billing

Time to Give Yourself a Raise?

Legal Update

Can You Make Blood Tests Mandatory?

Hospital Insider

How We Cut Down on Cancellations

Safety

Sharpless Surgery: A Quiet Revolution

Infection Prevention

Can You Skip Decontamination?

Product News

What's New for Flexible Endoscope Reprocessing

Medical Malpractice Quiz

Will Unapproved Anchor Sink Surgeon?

October 2005