Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nasima Mehraban, MD, and colleagues at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush studied these skin treatments in a ...

The Joint Commission offers healthcare organizations and providers a video, titled “Speak Up: When You’re Having Surgery,” to help educate their patients on surgery prep. The video encourages patients ...

Preparing for surgery does not just happen in the operating room—it begins weeks before. Prehabilitation is about the steps patients can take to improve their recovery, from quitting smoking and ...

John Di Capua, MD, is deputy CEO and chief medical officer of North American Partners in Anesthesia Corp.; vice president of anesthesia services of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System; and ...

An inexpensive program to help surgery patients get physically and mentally ready for their upcoming operation may help reduce overall costs and get them home faster, according to new research ...

After discovering his ASC experienced two infections in one quarter, Ralph Gambardella, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and president of Kerlan-Jobe Surgery Center in Los Angeles, quickly went to work with ...

Marathon runners know to carbo-load the night before a big run and the importance of replenishing electrolytes as they tick off miles. Being attuned to their bodies, exercise enthusiasts do what they ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement offers free, downloadable examples of Scrub the Hub posters. Scrub the Hub posters are designed to boost healthcare employees’ compliance to central line ...

All patients received intravenous antibiotics prior to surgery. Patients with prior infection, anesthesia class V poor-risk patients, patients requiring emergency surgery, and patients with missing ...

An inexpensive program to help surgery patients get physically and mentally ready for their upcoming operation may help reduce overall costs and get them home faster, according to new research ...