Outpatient
Magazine
February 2017
Capitalize on
Bundled Payments
Is Your Compounding
Pharmacy Safe?
Advances in
Refractive Cataracts
Boost Your Adenoma
Detection Rate
Did Skin Prep
Fuel This Fire?
Alcohol-based skin
preps cause only 4% of
OR fires, but you must
still exercise care when
applying these
flammable agents.
P. 38
BURN VICTIM Jeanne Holden, 86, shortly after she
suffered a surgical fire at an Oregon surgical center.
A key question remains unanswered: Was her skin prep dry
when her surgeon used the electrosurgical cauterizing probe?