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May 2025
Navigating Five Fundamental Regional Anesthesia Challenges
What every outpatient surgery center should know about nerve blocks.
Seamless Sharps Safety
Here’s help creating a multipronged process that keeps staff out of harm’s way.
Connect. Learn. Grow.
Outpatient Surgery Magazine connects the ambulatory surgery community – and offers OR leaders a place to exchange ideas, learn about emerging trends and discover in-the-field solutions to daily
challenges – providing the knowledge and tools to deliver high-quality care in the outpatient environment and keep healthcare workers and surgical patients safe.
Special Edition: May 2025 – Infection Prevention
Hand Hygiene Is a Team Effort
Creativity, conversation and data can boost clean-hands compliance.
Do Cold ORs Cause SSIs?
Experts say maintaining patient normothermia is more complex than just adjusting the thermostat.
In the News
Nurses Have the Power!
National Nurses Week, observed this year from May 6 to 12, recognizes the vital work being performed every minute of every day by millions of registered nurses in the U.S. and...
ALERT: Medication Vial Coring Poses Potential Fragmentation Risks
Two patient safety groups have issued an alert about the potential for injecting fragments of flexible stoppers on medication vials into patients....
Must Reads
Administrator Central
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A Day in the Life of an Administrator - Carson McCafferty
Welcome to A Day in the Life of an Administrator, our new online column, where we sat down with Carson McCafferty, MSN, RN, CNOR, CNAMB, CSRN...
Make IFUs Work for You
Do you usually read instructions? I rarely do unless I’m stuck. Take cooking, for example. Once I find a recipe I like, I tend to make it from memory, skipping the instructions....
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