Some people don’t lose enough weight after bariatric surgery, but a new study shows that adding a daily shot of GLP-1 drug ...

A new study suggests outcomes for major surgery are improved when patients receive one-on-one prehabilitation care prior to ...

Research suggests music has the power to relieve pain. We speak to a nurse who brings his ukulele into the hospital ward.

Here are five ways to improve patient experience and ambulatory surgery center operations after surgery. 1. Track post-surgical wound infections. Brian Brown, regional vice president of operations for ...

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...

Chyrese Newman, RN, has more than a decade of nursing experience under her belt. For the past eight years, she has worked ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued a guidance warning about the dangers of opioid-induced respiratory depression (“OIRD”) and required the following actions be taken: Timely ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. -- Sparing patients from unnecessary trips to the emergency room and saving the hospital more than $20,000 annually in contracts is all in ...

A group of doctors from Kerala successfully performed a rare minimally invasive bypass surgery on a kidney-transplant patient ...