Outpatient Surgery Magazine

Outpatient Surgery Magazine www outpatientsurgery.net February 2018 Our Surgical Nurse Internship Program Learn to Love Add-On Cases Can You Ace Our Skin Prep Quiz? Continuous Nerve Block Success Surgical Smoke Almost Killed Me An orthopedic surgeon is on a crusade to warn you about the dangers of exposure to plume. P. 32 After years of inhaling surgical smoke, orthopedic surgeon Anthony K. Hedley, MD, FRCS, was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and needed a life-saving double lung transplant.

• Cover
• Editor's Page
• Ideas That Work: Medication Lockbox
• Ideas That Work: Patient Safety
• Ideas That Work: Show Breast Cancer Patients You Care
• Ideas That Work: Hello, My Name Is
• Ideas That Work: Trips and Falls
• Ideas That Work: Label Your Crash Carts in Detail
• Ideas That Work: Help New Staff Track Their Progress
• Coding & Billing
• Staffing
• Business Advisor
• Surgical Smoke Almost Killed Me
• Skin Prep Pop Quiz
• 10 Tips for Effective Endoscope Reprocessing
• 4 Advances in Arthroscopy
• New Positions on Positioning
• How to Succeed With Outpatient Trauma
• Weighing Your Fluid Waste Disposal Options
• 3 Tips for Total Hip Efficiency
• What's New in Upper GI
• You Can't Put a Price on Pupil Dilation
• Sending Patients Home With Pain Pumps
• Product News
• Behind Closed Doors