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Is Your Data Secure? Outpatient Surgery Magazine - November 2017

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4 Educate your sur- geons, too When new surgeons join the practice, they, too, need to be educated. They can't use the same orders they're used to using in the hospi- tal. The emphasis has to be on dis- charge from the moment the patient arrives, as well as on quality, safety and satisfaction. It works out great for them because it cuts down on phone calls to their offices. Happy patients lead to happy sur- geons — surgeons who want to bring their patients to your facility. That's how you begin to see growth. 5 Less medication more often To be guided through the process, patients need to be alert and responsive after surgery. To manage pain, we use a multimodal protocol, but we administer a little less medication a little more fre- quently. Patients are engaged and cooperative instead of being out cold. Again, we stress to them that they're active participants in their recovery, which they appreciate. For more complex cases, our pre-op cocktail also includes Flomax to prevent urinary retention. We use a bladder scanner in post-op and don't discharge patients until their N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 7 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y. N E T • 5 7 • DISC REMOVAL The Diagnostic and Interventional Spine Center (DISC) in Marina del Ray, Calif., and the DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach, Calif., have performed more than 9,000 outpatient spine procedures.

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