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Study: Anesthesia Awareness May Trigger Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Nearly two-thirds of patients who experienced intraoperative awareness suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder 5 years after their surgeries, a...

Trained Providers Lower Propofol Risks

The airway complication risks associated with the use of propofol during advanced endoscopic procedures are lower when trained professionals deliver...

Wrong-Site Errors Plague Nerve Blocks, Too

A study examining the frequency and causes of wrong-site injections in pain management procedures recommends strict use of the Universal Protocol in...


	Archive > March, 2009	Vol. X, No. 3

FEATURES

Bariatric Surgery Lite

Find out how this multi-specialty ASC added adjustable gastric banding and achieved weight-loss surgery success.

How We Settled on a Single Skin Prep

Switching to one prep saved us $30,000 a year and simplified our infection control practice.

The Fundamentals of Flashing

How much of the flash sterilization process do your OR nurses really understand?

Inject Your Regional Anesthesia Program With Profitability

From the OR to the billing office, 6 steps to making nerve blocks beneficial to the bottom line.

11 Keys to Growing Your Ophthalmology Profits

Readers share their tips, tricks and strategies.

Efficiency Secrets of Busy GI Centers

An inside look at how the nation's highest-volume facilities got that way and stay that way.

Host an Orthopedic Equipment Fair

How we organized a mini-conference to get the latest equipment into the hands of frontline staff.

Understanding Radiofrequency Ablation

Another option in your pain management arsenal.

Think You Know Your GPO?

Everybody knows that group purchasing organizations offer you a wide range of products at significant savings, but misconceptions about them persist.

Thinking About Having Kids?

Considerations for specializing in or adding pediatric cases.

Thinking of Buying...Surgical Tables

A medical equipment planner shares 5 purchasing pearls.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

Is Recovery Care the Next Big Boom?

This Just In

Stimulus Package Impacts Health IT

Ideas That Work

The smile test

Staffing

Are Layoffs in Your Future?

Infection Prevention

Test Your Infection Prevention Knowledge

Medical Malpractice

When a Medical Event Becomes a Malpractice Case

Legal Update

Can ASCs Share in Anesthesia Revenue?

Coding & Billing

Getting Reimbursed for Shoulder Scopes

Anesthesia Alert

Pain Management in Patients Taking Suboxone

Path Lab

Path Results: By Mail or By Phone?

Safety

Ensure Your Allograft Safety

Behind Closed Doors

Jurassic OR

March 2009

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