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Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...


	Archive > October, 2004	Vol. V, No. 10

FEATURES

Gas or I.V.?

In the quest to give only as much anesthesia as necessary, TIVA has become a key strategy.

6 Tips for Better Peripheral Nerve Blocks

Steps you can take to localize the anesthetic to the site of surgery.

What's New in Patient Monitors

These seven updates make monitoring patients simpler, even as the technology becomes more complex.

A Crash Course in Crash Carts

How to keep your crash carts ready for action.

5 Tips for Managing Opioid-Tolerant Patients

How to handle the special post-op analgesia needs of this growing patient population.

How We Got Our Spine ASC Off The Ground

The trials endured and lessons learned in moving spine surgery to an ASC.

7 Keys to Adding Pain Management Services

What you need to know to begin hosting this high-demand specialty at your facility.

Inside the New IOL That Reverses Presbyopia

Some are calling the Crystalens a dramatic breakthrough in refractive surgery. Here's one facility's early experience with the artificial lens implant.

If You're Thinking of Buying...Flexible Endoscopes

The trick is to have just the right number of scopes so you don't have idle docs or idle scopes.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

Acupuncture and Arthroscopy

This Just In

Letters & Emails

Ideas That Work

Keeping Kids — and Their Parents — Happy

Staffing

An Educated Patient Is Your Best Patient

Legal Update

May the Best Provider Win

Coding & Billing

How to ensure you get paid for implanting these small — and extremely expensive — tissue supports.

Hospital OR Manager

Infection Prevention

Understanding Your Sterile Packaging Choices

Product News

A Better Hip Arthroscopy Set?

My Turn

Let's Rethink CONs

October 2004

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