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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Infection Control
SSI prevention, including surface disinfection, surgical scrubs, barrier protection, antibiotics, waste management and patient warming.
December 2008
6 Ways to Improve Hand-rub Compliance
Here are examples of what outpatient surgical facilities around the country are doing to improve hand-hygiene compliance with hand rubs. As you'll see, it takes persiste...
November 2008
Skin Prep Pop Quiz
It's time to test your surgical prep knowledge. Do you know the difference between preps' active ingredients? What about the proper way to apply preps? We'll see. You ma...
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Infection Control
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  Top 15 Regular Issue Articles
6 Ways to Improve Hand-rub Compliance (12/2008)
Skin Prep Pop Quiz (11/2008)
ABC's of Surface Disinfection (10/2008)
Infection Prevention (9/2008)
What's New in Low-temperature Sterilization (8/2008)
Ideas That Work (8/2008)
What's Wrong With Flashing Cataract Instruments? (7/2008)
Infection Prevention (7/2008)
Ideas That Work (7/2008)
10 Tips to Prevent a TASS Outbreak (7/2008)
This Just In (6/2008)
Infection Prevention (6/2008)
Back to Basics (6/2008)
A Scar is Born (6/2008)
This Just In (5/2008)
  Top 15 Manager's Guides' Articles
Surgery's Hidden Dangers
Safe Medical Waste Disposal
Infection Control
Take Our Infection Prevention Matching Test
Your Role in Reprocessing
Keep the Sterile Field Under Cover
The Importance of Antibiotic Protocols
The Essentials of Endoscope Reprocessing
The Practice of Prepping
A Review of Hand Hygiene
Does Your Cleaning Scratch the Surface?
Learning to Glove Again