Outpatient Surgery Magazine

Outpatient Surgery R Magazine www outpatientsurgery.net December 2015 What's the Harm? Our readers challenge home-laundering of scrubs and other sacred practices of surgery. p. 42 Going Green Can Save You Green p. 28 Time for a New Surgical Checklist? p. 38 Latest Anesthesia Devices p. 51 Does Forced-Air Warming Cause SSIs? p. 69

• Cover: What's the Harm? Outpatient Surgery Magazine
• Editor's Page: Up for Debate
• Ideas That Work: Learn By Doing
• Ideas That Work: Answer Sheet
• Ideas That Work: Kid Stuff
• Ideas That Work: Reprocessing Record
• In Case You Missed It...
• Ideas That Work: Race Against Time
• Ideas That Work: Innovative Ideas
• Coding & Billing: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
• Business Advisor: Going Green Can Save You Green
• Anesthesia Alert: An Infection Risk at the Head of the Table?
• Safety: Time for a New Surgical Checklist
• What's the Harm?
• Anesthesia's Latest and Greatest
• 4 Burning Questions About Patient Warming
• The Case for Biologic Hernia Repair
• Troubled Times For Endoscope Reprocessing
• 10 Products to Boost Your Fight Against SSIs
• Take Better Care of Your Surgical Instruments
• Ask the Experts: Should You Add Mini-Laparoscopy?
• New Currents in Electrosurgery
• Should You Add Same-Day Spine?
• Ready for Retina?
• Thinking of Buying ... Arthroscopy Imaging Consoles
• Product News
• Cutting Remarks: The Joys of ICD-10 Documentation
• Behind Closed Doors: The OR Manager's Holiday Gift List