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On loan: The challenges associated with loaner instrumentation Loaner instrumentation is becoming more and more prevalent in health care facilities today. This is due to a number of different factors, including the need for facilities to increase efficiency and the...

Cover Story: Don’t stick it to me Reducing sharp injuries where they occur most Sharps safety has concerned nurses and surgeons for as long as needles and scalpels have existed. But the issue received broad—and some would say, long-overdue—attention a decade ago...

One key element in the operating room has been virtually unchanged in more than a half-century : the medical scrub.

In our imperfect world, mistakes happen, including in the OR. But few OR mistakes are as potentially costly as wrong site surgeries—in terms of needless patient pain and suffering (and even death), of course, but also financial loss and damaged reputations to...

The same words you might hear a designer use to describe a modern loft apartment also apply to the integrated operating room.

How the surgical tech plays an instrumental part of the OR team By Don Sadler There are few environments where teamwork is more important than in the operating room. Each individual on the OR team has specific skills and clearly defined individual roles. This includes...