Surgical Facility Administration
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Learn to Love Your Accreditation Surveyor
Embrace those dings as opportunities for improvement.
Posted 04/15/19 | | 
Keep Patients Safe in Steep Trendelenburg
Here's a heads-up on what to do when patients are heads-down.
Posted 04/15/19 | |
Heated Debate
Scott Augustine, MD, the inventor of the Bair Hugger patient warming device, claims it causes SSIs. The manufacturer, and the courts, so far have disagreed.
Posted 04/15/19 | |
Backbreaker
How Laser Spine Institute's multimillion-dollar surgery empire crumbled in a day.
Posted 04/15/19 | |
FDA Shocked by Spike in Malfunctioning Staplers
Devices that misfired or failed to fire have injured or killed thousands.
Posted 04/15/19 | |
Real-time OR Monitoring Leads to Better, Safer Surgery
QA with Teodor Grantcharov, MD, PhD, FACS, creator of surgery's 'black box' and believer that data doesn't lie.
Posted 04/03/19 |
Promote Perfect Attendance
Text message reminders and online patient registration portals can put an end to canceled cases.
Posted 04/03/19 | |
A Wide-Angle View of Today's Whole-Room Disinfection Systems
Which automated surface-sterilizing technology best suits your needs?
Posted 04/03/19 | |
The Perks of Paperless Preference Cards
Digital platforms take the stress out of knowing you'll have the supplies you need when and where you'll need them.
Posted 04/03/19 | |
New-School Thinking in Sterile Reprocessing
Interactive imaging and the return of ethylene oxide will shape the future care of contaminated instruments.
Posted 04/03/19 | |
