Safety
Articles primarily related to patient and staff safety.
May 2013
What's Wrong With These Pictures?
Safe medication management is founded on proper drug handling, from storage to preparation to delivery. The rules of drug administration have been clearly established by reg...
Top 15 Regular Issue Articles
- Where Do You Stand With Safety Scalpels? (5/2013)
- What's Wrong With These Pictures? (5/2013)
- How These 3 Wrong-Site Surgeries Could Have Been Prevented (5/2013)
- Are Your ORs Hurting Your Docs? (5/2013)
- Thinking of Buying ... Airway Visualization Devices (4/2013)
- Staffing - 5 OR Border Control Tips for Vendors (4/2013)
- Safety - Speak Up for Surgical Safety (4/2013)
- Marking Madness (4/2013)
- Lessons Learned From Malignant Hyperthermia (4/2013)
- Think You Can't Make Medication Errors? (3/2013)
- Safety - Crown a Safety Champion (3/2013)
- Infection Prevention - Antiseptic Doesn't Mean Contamination-Free (3/2013)
- Ideas That Work (3/2013)
- Editor's Page - Let's Not Compound the Compounding Problem (3/2013)
- Staffing - Do You Have an Addict on Staff? (2/2013)
Top 15 Manager's Guides' Articles
- Stay Vigilant Against Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Easy Fixes for Avoiding Wrong-Site Surgery
- No More Patient Burns
- Take No Airway for Granted
- Best Practices for C-Arm Safety
- Stay on Your Feet
- Are You Ready for an MH Emergency?
- The Many Faces of Wrong-Site Surgery Prevention
- Avoid Medication Missteps
- Why We Pre-Warm Our Patients
- Our Hands-Off Approach to Sharps Safety
- Seamlessly Integrating Surgical Smoke Evacuation
- Tourniquets Revolutionize Extremity Surgery
- Give Your Staff a Break
- What to See in C-Arms




