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Looking for a quick and easy way to raise money? The auxiliary for Covenant Hospital Plainview (TX) raised about $12,000 for the purchase of equipment and conversion of hospital space into a same-day surgery room.
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As the number of aging patients having outpatient surgery continues to increase, patient fitness is more important than chronological age, according to researchers.
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As pediatric specialists become increasingly aware that surgical anesthesia might have lasting effects on the developing brains of young children, new research suggests the threat also might apply to adult brains.
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The compliance hotline operated through the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has been discontinued due to an increased cost of the program that the association did not want to pass on to its members.
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The North Shore LIJ Health System in Forest Hills, NY, is expanding a first-of-its-kind video monitoring system used to measure hand-washing compliance at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY, by introducing cameras in operating rooms at Forest Hills (NY) Hospital.
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Several four-legged volunteers with the People-Animal Connection (PAC) program at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and their human counterparts starred in an episode of a PBS television show, "Shelter Me: Let's Go Home."
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Ambulatory surgery programs traditionally calmed patients by providing anti-anxiety medications and perhaps offering a tour ahead of time for pediatric patients.
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The Association of perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has released a new "Recommended Practices for Sharps Safety," which replaces the "Guidance Statement: Sharps Injury Prevention in the Perioperative Setting" issued in 2005.
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Washington State surgeons recently announced standardized guidelines for preoperative care in the form of pre-surgical checklists and tools available to all surgeons to use in their offices or by patients at home to ensure that the health of patients is optimized before surgery.
