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Unlicensed Cosmetic Surgery Hospitalizes 6 in N.J.

New Jersey medical authorities are investigating the incidence of and issuing alerts on unlicensed cosmetic surgery providers after 6 women suffered...

Rotator Cuff Repair Restores Strength, Not Function

Rotator cuff surgery may restore a patient's normal shoulder strength, but mobility issues persist in the repaired joint, according to researchers a...

Do Patients Expect Too Much From Joint Replacement?

Even with a thorough pre-op education program, more than two-thirds of joint replacement patients don't share the expectations that their surgeons d...


	Archive > May, 2009	Vol. X, No. 5

FEATURES

Is It Time to Add Spine?

With the right partners, support staff and equipment, you can make this profitable and growing specialty the backbone of your facility

Can You Reach 5 Key Colonoscopy Benchmarks?

Here's advice for kicking your GI practice up a notch.

What Do You Know About...High-Definition Video?

Test your knowledge and review the technical details about this revolution in how you'll see surgery.

What's New for Orthopedic Surgery

A surgeon takes you on a tour of the exhibit hall at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' annual meeting.

Safety Scalpels and Sutures Have Come a Long Way

Safety-engineered devices feel better, cut better — and still reduce injury and infection in the OR.

New Tools and Techniques for Regional Anesthesia

Advances that promise to improve the ease of block performance, block success rates and complications.

Evaluating Your Tissue Cutting and Sealing Options

The latest devices work on much larger vessels, making them valuable tools in a growing number of specialties.

Preparing for a Paperless Future

How to clear the cost and planning hurdles that can derail your conversion to electronic health records.

Thinking of Buying...Stretcher and Chair Tables

A review of patient transport equipment that doubles as operating tables.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

Falling Short Where It Matters Most

This Just In

Medicare’s New Conditions of Coverage

Ideas That Work

Start Your Own News Channel

Business Advisor

Is Your Surgery Center Ripe for Sale?

Coding & Billing

5 Ways to Prepare for the ICD-10 Transition

Product News

Syringes designed for automated dispensing, a head-mounted video camera and a unique time out reminder.

Anesthesia Alert

A New Sedation Technique for GI Endoscopy

Behind Closed Doors

Life as a Traveling Nurse

May 2009

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