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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

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Overbuild, Overequip and Overstaff
These are the three surest ways to sink your surgery center.
Diana Procuniar, RN, BA, CNOR

Regardless of repeated advice and recent history, physicians notoriously make three mistakes when they build surgery centers. They overbuild, overequip and overstaff. Any one of these mistakes can single-handedly sink a surgery center. Here's how to spot these errors and correct them before they can do too much damage to your project.

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