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38 COVER STORY
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.
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor
48 Inside Our Outpatient Vascular Surgical Center
How we tapped into an expanding opportunity
of treating vein-related maladies and diseases.
Mohmmed Margni, MD, FACS, RPVI
55 Image-guided ENT: The New Standard?
How surgical navigation takes the guesswork
out of delicate ENT procedures.
Bill Donahue | Senior Editor
62 Are Bundled Payments Good for Surgery?
How to capitalize on the popular payment
model that sets a flat price for all the care you'll
deliver before, during and after surgery.
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor
70 Digging Deeper to Reduce Medical Errors
If you don't reach the root cause,
you're not likely to solve the problem.
Spence Byrum
76 Does Size Matter When
It Comes to Surgical Displays?
A bigger screen size is nice,
but that's not all surgeons care about.
Miroslav Uchal, MD, FACS, FASMBC
83 Coming Clean on Instrument Washers
Tips for buying the machine that's right for your facility.
Nancy Chobin, RN, CSPM
88 7 Questions to Ask Your Compounding Lab
Does your lab take medication safety
as seriously as you do?
Diane Stopyra | Contributing Editor
97 Secrets to Safe Same-Day Spinal Fusion
Anterior cervical surgery is all about
patient selection and pain management.
W. Bradley Worthington, MD
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