Outpatient Surgery Magazine

Outpatient Surgery R Magazine www outpatientsurgery.net March 2016 Awake or Asleep: When to Remove LMAs? p. 26 Deal With Difficult Employees Head-on p. 31 Gene Viscusi, MD, on IV Anti-Inflammatories p. 65 Covered Containers or Blue Wrap? p. 99 You may be needlessly starving your patients if you still adhere to rigid fasting guidelines. p. 48 Why Can't He Eat or Drink After Midnight? SAY NO TO NPO

• Cover
• Contents: Features
• Contents: Departments
• Editor's Page: Fired for Fighting for Patient Safety
• Ideas That Work: How We Got Our Flashing Under Control
• Ideas That Work: A Simple Way to Keep Instrument Sets Organized
• Ideas That Work: Free Hot Drinks Keep patients' Escorts Happy
• Ideas That Work: If You Can See Light Through The Wrap...
• Ideas That Work: Store Laryngoscope Blades in Bubble Wrap
• Ideas That Work: 4 Ways to Boost Your Hand Hygiene Efforts
• Anesthesia Alert: The Great LMA Debate
• Staffing: Deal With Difficult Employees Head On
• Business Advisor: Time to Dust Off Those Preference Cards
• Coding & Billing: 6 Strategies to Get Your Claims Paid Correctly
• Medical Malpractice: Suits From Slips
• Is Prolonged Fasting Harming Your Patients?
• Tools for Better Blocks
• The Case for IV Anti-Inflammatories
• 12 Tips for Safe Trendelenburg Positioning
• Pearls to Prevent Cross-Contamination
• Get the Most Out of Your Malignant Hyperthermia Drills
• Our Switch From Blue Wrap to Sterile Containers
• Clear Visibility
• Take Our Blanket Warmers Quiz
• How Do You Manage Fluid Waste?
• Thinking of Buying ... A C-arm
• Infection Prevention: Improving Your Antibiotic Prescribing
• Legal Update: Tapping Into the Self-Insured Employer Market
• Product News: Great ideas for your OR
• Cutting Remarks: Are We Really Discharging That Patient?
• Behind Closed Doors: I'm Not "Just a Nurse"