Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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• 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"