Anesthesia providers, especially those who practice in freestanding facilities and offices, are buzzing about a cluster of three hepatitis C infections found in patients who received intravenous anesthesia from the same anesthesiologist based in New York City in August 2006. The anesthesiologist worked at about 10 outpatient practices.
Under updated infection control guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Standard Precautions now include respiratory/cough etiquette instructions.
Managing costs for an outpatient surgery program is an ongoing challenge for all managers, but the challenge is not insurmountable, according to experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
Ambulatory surgery providers have often raised concerned about nonsurgeons venturing into surgical territory. Now one state has sanctioned the practice.
When an outpatient surgery program has a low surgical site infection rate, it is hard to attribute the low rate to any one activity, but experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery agree that following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) guidelines for hair removal prior to surgery is a simple step to take as part of an overall program.
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