Archive > July, 2012 XIII, No. 7
FEATURES
10 Products You Can't Live Without
Ingenious devices that will make your facility better without breaking your budget.
OIG to Surgeons: 'Hands Off Anesthesia Fees!'
Advisory opinion strongly condemns surgeons from asking anesthesia providers for kickbacks.
These workflow and documentation aids will let our staff prepare for and document cases like never before.
Battling Superbugs with the Basics
Multi-drug resistant organisms put a new emphasis on hand hygiene and environmental cleaning.
5 Questions to Ask Your Laundry Service
Expect more than properly cleaned and neatly pressed linens.
What's New in Gastroenterology
A look at the latest devices and technologies showcased at this year's Digestive Disease Week.
Secrets of High-Volume Pain Centers
Some of the nation's busiest facilities explain how they achieved excellent outcomes, efficiency and profitability.
Glaucoma Undergoes a Surgical Renaissance
Trabeculectomy isn't the only game in town anymore. Here's an overview of the latest in micro-invasive glaucoma surgery.
The Art of Efficient Arthroscopy
6 practical tips to boost your case throughput.
5 wireless technologies that will impact your ORs.
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Page - Money for Nothing
Here's hoping for an end to surgeons profiting from anesthesia.
Customized discharge directions - Pearls for pediatric patients - Simplify your pain control formulary
Staffing - Hybrid Approach to Anesthesia Staffing
It pays to let your providers flow to the next available case.
Business Advisor - 7 Strategies to Get Paid for Implants
Persuade payors and vendors to cover surgery's priciest parts.
Thinking of Buying - A Sponge Management System
Even correct counts can result in retained objects.
Cutting Remarks - The Enforcer
He keeps us surgeons who can't say 'no' in line and (sort of) on time.
Amazed & Amused - Turn Up the Tunes in the Operating Room
Studies show that music improves surgical outcomes.
Behind Closed Doors - Don’t Anger the Gods of Surgery
Could they be to blame for those really bad days in the OR?
