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Hospitals Cracking Down on Disruptive Docs

Even before the Joint Commission issued its Sentinel Event Alert requiring zero-tolerance policies on lateral violence, several hospitals had alread...

Surgeons Hone Motor Skills with Games

Having helped children and adults realize their dreams of being (virtual) tennis, golf and baseball champions, the Nintendo Wii video game system is...

Women Unaware of Minimally Invasive Gynecological Procedures

Women don't know enough about minimally invasive options for treating pelvic health disorders and want their OB/GYN physicians to fill the informati...
Archive > December 2006 Vol. VII, No. 12
FEATURES
The Stop Sticks Campaign Wants You
If you're serious about reducing sharps injuries, you'll have to win over the hearts and minds of your surgeons and staff.
Give Your Nurses a Lift
Our hospital's patient-handling program saves backs, bumps and bucks.
5 Ways to Prevent Upper Airway Fires
Here's how to keep your surgeons and staff ever mindful that cautery and lasers are ignition sources.
Prevent Patient Positioning Problems
Practical advice to reduce injuries from prolonged pressure and improper positioning.
Safety
Proper Use of Patient Warming Devices.
What's New for Anesthesia and Pain Management
A review of the newest products on display at the ASA annual meeting.
Keys to Successful Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Surgery
This method minimizes muscle injury and post-operative pain while improving post-operative mobilization and cosmesis.
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Page
Is Stopping Sticks as Hard as Stopping Smoking?
Letters & Emails
Bridging the generation gap
This Just In
TASS continues to vex the experts
Ideas That Work
A do-it-yourself consent form
Staffing
Building a Strong Back Office
Legal Update
Make It Easy for Young Surgeons to Buy In
Medical Malpractice Quiz
The Case of the Lost Airway
Business Advisor
Uncovering 12 Hidden Costs of Going Paperless
Coding & Billing
Coding in the New Year
Infection Prevention
A Refresher on Proper Gowning
Product News
Single-handed Scalpel Blade Removal
Behind Closed Doors
The Ten Commandments of Surgery
December 2006
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