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34 COVER STORY
Calm & Cool During a MH Crisis
Is your staff prepared to
swing into action to save a patient's life?
Colleen Bradley, BSN, RN, CNOR
45 New Opportunities in Glaucoma Surgery
The future is bright for procedures
that lower intraocular pressure.
Steven R. Sarkisian, MD
56 Easing the Quality Reporting Burden
Can technology help gather data
for CMS quality reporting and benchmarking?
Outpatient Surgery Editors
60 How We Implemented MRSA Screening
By targeting our most vulnerable
patients, we dramatically reduced SSIs.
Roberta Schofield, MSN, APRN, PCNS-BC, CNOR
70 Are Prefilled Syringes Safer Than Ever?
Compounders are engineering
safety features into their prefilled products.
Anna Merriman | Associate Editor
78 Eat, Drink and Be Healthy
Optimizing pre-op nutrition prepares patients
for the physical stress of surgery, lowers risk of
complications and improves clinical outcomes.
Paul Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC
85 Unleash Your Pre-Admission Software
Online patient registration is just the beginning.
You can send patients automated text and tele-
phone reminders, track data and more.
Rena Carney, RN, BSN
91 Opioid-Free Recipe Swap
Anesthetists share the ingredients to their
multimodal approach to 3 painful surgeries.
JoEllen McBride, PhD | Associate Editor
97 Keep Your Staff Safe
The OR can be a
dangerous place for your employees.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
103 Monitor and Maintain Normothermia
3 non-invasive ways to easily track your patient's core
body temperature before, during and after surgery.
Anna Merriman | Associate Editor
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