OR Manager Conference Attendees: Join us for breakfast and a General Session with Joe Tye in Osceola C-D at 6:30 am ET tomorrow (Wednesday) for additional CE credit.

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As healthcare delivery shifts from a fee-for-service model to value-based care, providers must collaborate on everything from preoperative optimization to postoperative outcomes. To help nurse leaders responsible for the postanesthesia care unit (PACU), the 2017 OR Manager Conference has added the inaugural PACU Manager Summit, a 3-day program that targets…

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The largest Exhibit Hall in the history of the OR Manager Conference is set to open at 4 pm ET on October 2. More than 190 vendors will showcase products and services designed to improve quality, safety, and efficiency in the operating room. The full list of participating vendors can…

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The annual OR Manager Conference bookstore, featuring 100+ titles, opens October 2 in the City Hall Lobby at The Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Florida. Books will be categorized by subject matter: clinical/study material, inspirational, conflict resolution, leadership, and finance. Books authored by 2017 OR Manager Conference speakers also will be…

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OR Manager Conference Attendees: Join us for a breakfast presentation by Ecolab in Osceola C-D at 6:30 am ET tomorrow (Tuesday) for additional CE credit.

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Editor's Note A lack of awareness of the financial burden of physician burnout and uncertainty about what can be done to reduce or prevent it have been barriers to organizations taking action to address the problem, finds this study. Reviewing available evidence and analyzing the financial costs of physician burnout…

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Editor's Note The Joint Commission on September 27 announced an update to its business rules that determine the number of days the Life Safety Code surveyor will be part of a hospital’s survey. The changes, which will take effect January 1, 2018, include: Only square footage will be used to…

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Editor's Note The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on September 28 sent letters to vascular and cardiothoracic surgeons, radiologists, and cardiologists, alerting them to an increase in Type III endoleaks associated with endovascular graft systems used in endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic and aorto-iliac aneurysms. The FDA’s letter…

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Editor's Note In patients 85 years of age and older, surgical complexity and certain geriatric variables (malnutrition, frailty), which are overlooked in American Society of Anesthesiologists and most other scores, were relevant in predicting postoperative outcomes and mortality, finds this study. Of 127 patients who completed follow-up, 30-day mortality was…

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Editor's Note The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on August 31 issued 10 penalties to 10 California hospitals along with fines totaling $618,002. Of these, three applied to the OR: Loma Linda University Medical Center, Murrieta−a patient sustained a full thickness thermal burn injury to the left calf from…

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